dene

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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

Enough now; since the sacred matter that I mean I should be wronging longer leaving it to float Upon this only gambolling and echoing-of-earth note— What is … the delightful dene?

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

We know nothing more of Ashford, which, as I have said, till late in the Middle Age consisted of a church and two mills and a dene for the pannage of hogs in the Weald.

From England of My Heart : Spring by Hutton, Edward

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 Hare, Augustus J. C.

Hyre byrigen is swutol eallum onlociendum o� �ysne andweardan d�g, on middan ��re dene Iosaphat.

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