fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

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

The older track between Cherry Hinton and Cambridge was by what used to be, till within the last fifty years, a pretty footpath across the fenny ground to the north of the field.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

Paths there were many, Winding through palmy fern and rushes fenny And ivy banks; all leading pleasantly To a wide lawn...

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

From combs of distant Devonshire, from sunny Sussex wold, From where their Durham pastures the stately short-horns hold; From Herefordshire marches, from fenny Cambridge flat, For London’s maw they gather—those oxen fair and fat.

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John