fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

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

East Friesland, as its name shews, is Frisian also; although, with a few exceptional localities in the very fenny districts, the language has been replaced by the German.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

This fenny district gradually had been reclaimed, and to-day the deep loam and peat-soils, not unlike the rich farms of Holland, are celebrated for their high condition of agriculture.

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles 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