“Not a blade of grass or a tall reed in the marshy places near the shore made the slightest movement.”

“And yet I bleed, blown on and broken like a weakly reed.”

“In what's becoming an annual tradition, Chicago-via-Boston reedist Ken Vandermark is joined by his former Beantown cohort, drummer Curt Newton […].”

“Making it worse is the fact that whenever the band forgets itself and goes into Dire Straits mode, his voice starts edging towards reediness.”

“Barry Banks's Orestes was a bit overwrought and his timbre veered on reediness.”

“Assistance from below decks was summoned by a screech whose panicked reediness wiped out all accumulated dad-points, and with my children on barge-pole duty, bow-to-bow contact was restricted to a glancing blow.”

“Not a blade of grass or a tall reed in the marshy places near the shore made the slightest movement.”

“And yet I bleed, blown on and broken like a weakly reed.”

“The cover of the Hortus Malabaricus by Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein.”

“Other craft items include both glazed and unglazed pottery, ceremonial wooden masks, and goods woven from palm, straw, reeds, and sisal.”

“The music was produced from organ pipes, reeds, drums, bells, and strings struck with a hammer.”

“Beavers, procyons, musquashes, foxes and otters dwell in the reeds, while boars and 30 other species of mammals live on dry land.”