fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

Finsbury was so called from the fenny district in which it lay.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack

For instance, wooded spots must be visited if you are to take certain of the Fritillaries, oak woods for the Purple Emperor and the Purple Hairstreak, fenny districts for the beautiful Swallow-tail, and so forth.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

This brightness of his mind communicated itself to all the objects round him, to the sluggish waters of the Ouse, to dull, fenny Huntingdon, and to its commonplace inhabitants.

From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin

On the second day we reached a marshy and fenny country, which owing to immense quantities of rain which had lately fallen, was completely submerged. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William