fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

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

He cut canals, with vast labor and expense, through all the low eastern parts of Britain, at the same time draining those fenny countries, and promoting communication and commerce.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Fillet of fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bakae: Eye of newt, and toe of frog;— For a charm, &c.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

BOURNE, or Bourn, a market town in the S. Kesteven or Stamford parliamentary division of Lincolnshire, England; lying in a fenny district 95 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various