fenny
Example Sentences
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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2018
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name shews, is Frisian also; although, with a few exceptional localities in the very fenny districts, the language has been replaced by the German.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)
Those on land had to scramble over rocks and precipices, to struggle through swamps and fenny streams; or cut their way through tangled thickets, which reduced their clothes to rags.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
He cut canals, with vast labor and expense, through all the low eastern parts of Britain, at the same time draining those fenny countries, and promoting communication and commerce.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Geese love water and marshy places, and Lincolnshire, which is a fenny place, is famous for breeding them.
From Mamma's Stories about Birds by Leathley, Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley
