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

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

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

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

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