"Reed-mace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "The raupo, the reed-mace of New Zealand, always grows in swampy ground. The leaves or blades when full grown are cut and laid out to dry, forming the common building material with which most ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... where it might be possible for a tunnel to run down into the water, shady spots where willows and alders overhung the lake; places where birch and hazels grew close up to the patches of rushes and reed-mace, with its tall broken pokers standing high above the ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn |
