Slender reeds, indeed, to lean on in my hour of need.

"I must say I saw a lot of slender reeds in that room."

The servicemen's families are not about to let go either, even those whose hopes seem to be slender reeds to lean on.

And it is reminiscent of nature, often finished with organic flourishes like irises or slender reeds.

That left Barnes Foundation students and neighbors as slender reeds against a torrential wind.

One lovely moment came at the start, when four of the theater's side columns were suddenly lighted from below and became slender reeds of light.

Bluets posed primly on slender reeds, and three stocky little Eastern amberwings chased one another around choice perches.

Breath becomes joy when it is forced through the alembic of a long row of slender reeds - intoxicating transmutation."

A Lot of Slender Reeds' Previously, some district attorneys in the city have opposed relinquishing jurisdiction to special state prosecutors.

Rather, we ought to learn an important lesson from Canadian antics: faux populist movements manipulated from above by Establishmentarians are slender reeds upon which to lean.

And even when his conclusions are not entirely persuasive - they do in places hang on rather slender reeds of evidence - they are always plausible and certainly interesting.

Slender reeds and tall straight grasses fringed the nearer edge, and, as the wind passed through them with a hush and whisper, they bent over in a wave of flowing green.

Slender reeds of brilliant green grew along the bank, save for where a broad stone was deep set, projecting a little into the water, as if meant as a wharf for some miniature fleet.

As they froze their bodies into striking tableaus or weaved across the stage in simple formations, frequently appearing in shadowy silhouette, they seemed like slender reeds slowly swaying in a shallow pond.