By this time the Iceni had become familiar with the channels through the swamps for long distances from their fastness, and had even established a trade with the people lying to the northwest of the Fen country.
The Fen country is wide, there must be room for great numbers to shelter, and surely there must be places where we could live without disturbance to your people.
None had penetrated far beyond the margin, partly because they were afraid of losing their way, partly because of the enmity of the Fen people.
We have to question the people here as to the great swamps, and get them to send to the Fen people for guides who will lead us across the marshes to some spot where we can dwell above the level of the highest waters.
Indeed, it would need ten legions to form a line along both sides of the Fen country right down to the sea and to pen us in completely.
They used to be common in the fen countries, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, but are not now so frequently seen in England as formerly.
The Redshank delights in the fen countries, and in wet and marshy grounds, where it breeds and rears its young.
Illustration] Wild Ducks are caught by decoys in the fen countries, and in such prodigious numbers, that in only ten decoys in the neighbourhood of Wainfleet, as many as thirty-one thousand two hundred have been caught in one season.
Smith and other friends, the desired subscribers were very slow in presenting themselves, poetry being evidently at a discount at the border of the fen regions.
There was danger in being a poet on the borders of the fen regions.
The traveller from the north can see, for thirty miles over the bleak and desolate fen regions, the stately towers of Burleigh Hall--but can see little else beside.
Except the modern iron highways, these old Roman roads form still the chief means of intercommunication at this border of the fen regions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
