fenny

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

Specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny parts of Great Britain.

From Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Her dream is like the fenny snake's, That warms him in the noonday's fire.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee

Fenchurch-street, from a fenny or moorish ground by a river side.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

It is fenny no longer, and the path has become for three-fourths of its length a somewhat dreary street through the dingy suburb of "Romsey Town."

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