What is "broken reeds"

Usage examples of "broken reeds".

I suppose I left smeared tracks-marks-the bruised and broken reeds.

She could well imagine the sight she presented with a welter of broken reeds crowning her head, dripping strands of hair streaming down her face, and her once-crisp ruff draped around her neck like the much-bedraggled ornament of a woebegone sea nymph.

Filthy, broken reeds littered the floor, their stench no doubt worsened by the remnants of more than one meal and the pack of hounds running loose through the hall.

While Margo stared, the new priests broke the reed scepters violently in half, then carried them one by one and tied the broken reeds to the gilded pine tree.

This harmonica was extremely well constructed, with no broken reeds, and every note was pure and in perfect pitch.

Under the gray sky, pools of stagnant water flickered among dead grasses and broken reeds.

But they can't do that if they come down to the broken reeds among their number.

She shuddered, and pressed the right side of her cheek into the dirt, against one of the broken reeds, or rushes.