fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

It is an old bowyer's rede that the second feather of a fenny goose is better than the pinion of a tame one.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

He asked questions about our farming, the trees and herbs in the fenny soil, the birds and beasts of our woods and marshes.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

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name shews, is Frisian also; although, with a few exceptional localities in the very fenny districts, the language has been replaced by the German.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)