dene
Example Sentences
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Bryng us in no mutton, for that is often lene, Nor bryng us in no trypys, for thei be syldom dene But bryng us in good ale.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
And to say truth, dene is the old Saxon word for a vale or low bottom, as dune or don is for a hill or hilly soil.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
Lord Durham was drilling his volunteer corps before the castle, and a mock siege was got up, with a storming of the new bridge over the dene.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Dee what ye wull, and I'll dee the same—only lat it be dene quaietly, 'ithoot din or proclamation!
From Salted with Fire by George MacDonald
Like the prodigal, he grew that ashamit o' what he had dene, that he gied up his kirk, and gaed hame to the day's darg upon his father's ferm.
From Salted with Fire by George MacDonald
