fenny
Example Sentences
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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018
Not far a lake extends, a space once fill'd “With human 'habitants, whose waves now swarm “With fenny coots, and cormorants alone.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
The older track between Cherry Hinton and Cambridge was by what used to be, till within the last fifty years, a pretty footpath across the fenny ground to the north of the field.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
It is fenny no longer, and the path has become for three-fourths of its length a somewhat dreary street through the dingy suburb of "Romsey Town."
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny parts of Great Britain.
From Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
