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
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 William Harrison
Night's noon stars coyly peep, O'er dale and dene and deep, And Fairies fair float through the air, Love's festival to keep.
From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair Fitzgerald
Ford Cottage, August 24.—I have been walking in the dene to-day with Lady Stuart.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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
