fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

Around the city there is an extensive fenny plain, which has been greatly improved and cultivated by the Dutch; but to the east it still remains encumbered by woods and marshes.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

You shall drink wine poured into the vessel in the second consulship of Taurus, produced between the fenny Minturnae and Petrinum of Sinuessa.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

From end to end, from border to border, the fenny expanse roars with discharge and echo, and nowhere within it is there peace or rest for the sole of a webbed foot.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Dr. Hawkins hesitates whether to attribute this to the large proportion of dry and elevated district which that county possesses, or to the exemption of fenny countries generally from consumption.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various