fenny

Example Sentences

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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

For instance, wooded spots must be visited if you are to take certain of the Fritillaries, oak woods for the Purple Emperor and the Purple Hairstreak, fenny districts for the beautiful Swallow-tail, and so forth.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

Her dream is like the fenny snake's, That warms him in the noonday's fire.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee

From combs of distant Devonshire, from sunny Sussex wold, From where their Durham pastures the stately short-horns hold; From Herefordshire marches, from fenny Cambridge flat, For London’s maw they gather—those oxen fair and fat.

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

It is a Custom with the Northern Lovers to divert themselves with a Song, whilst they Journey through the fenny Moors to pay a visit to their Mistresses.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph