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
Thanne was Sr. John Slake at Westm’, dene of the kynges chapell, arested and put in prison in Ludgate, and othere certeyn monkes of Westm’.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
No engagement ever existed between me and Miss Ever- dene.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
At three we came on to Roddam, where an uncle and aunt of Charlie Bosanquet's live—a beautiful place, with a terraced garden almost overhanging the moorlands, and a dene stretching up into the Cheviots.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Or it may be that it is so called of Wald and dene: for I have read it written in old evidences Waldæne, with a diphthong.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
