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

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

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 Harrison, William

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

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

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