Reed

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man is a thinking reed.

Heck, with oboe players there are those who, rather than search for a reed that suits them, find it faster to make their own.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Tom broke Mary's clarinet reed.

Teach me how to play a reed pipe.

Legendary American singer Lou Reed has died at the age of seventy-one.

I personally consider the death of an artist like Lou Reed tragic.

A plant which is larger and hardier than a herb is called a shrub, such as: in banks and ponds, the rush, the bullrush, cask without knots, bearing cat's-tails, and the reed, which is knotty and hollow inside.

The ship creaked and groaned, the mighty timbers bulged and bent under the heavy blows, the water broke over the decks, snapping the mainmast like a reed.