The flexible reeds are used to build arched reed houses in a design unchanged for thousands of years as well as burned for fuel.

A woman in Iraq s southern marshes gathering reeds.

Women gather reeds in Iraq's southern marshlands.

He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

And they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up the reeds and flags shall wither.

or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Line Break

Bangladesh Breaking taboos

Who broke this?

Who broke the vase?

Sami broke down the door.

Sami broke his nose.

Breaking Burma s Isolation

1 Breaking the Siege.

A 7000 year old seagoing boat made from reeds and tar has been found in Kuwait.

John broke the window yesterday.

Who broke this pen?

He broke the window on purpose.

Tom is trying to break the lock.

Breaking the Climate Deadlock

Tom broke the window.

Cuneiform texts were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed used as a stylus.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Breaking China s Investment Addiction

It broke the buck.

My flesh and my skin has he made old he has broken my bones.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my bones.

Breaking the cycle of violence and inequity

Breaking Europe s Climate Change Stalemate

Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

Could provocation help break taboos?

The rivers provided the further benefits of fish (used both for food and fertilizer), reeds, and clay (for building materials).

This is a kenaf clinic. You get seed and you grow it in a plot of land, and then once and it grows 14 feet in a month.

While men in the marshes fish, women and girls do most of the manual labor including cutting and transporting the reeds.

Bufallo milk, a staple of the diet here, is also boiled over reed fires and turned into a thick cream to be sold.

Its wall consists of three layers, surrounding a central chamber, which is connected to the water by a ramp, also composed of reeds.

Madeleine Albright This is Breaking the Glass Ceiling.

But it s hard to break our habits, our adult habits.

He proved his dominance over us by breaking even our simplest concepts.

This coalition broke up in June 2008.

For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.