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

Csars dene, perhaps don: Cæsar's dene, Cæsar's plains; now Salisbury plaine.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

No engagement ever existed between me and Miss Ever- dene.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

Seo dene is betwux ��re dune Sion and �am munte Oliueti, and seo byrigen is �teowed open and emtig, and ��r on-uppon on hire wur�mynte is ar�red m�re cyrce mid wundorlicum st�n-geweorce.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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 Harrison, William