The smoak hereof being bruised, drives away flies and gnats, which in the night time molest people inhabiting near marshes, and in the fenny countries.
But on the shore thereof, and in the fennyplaces they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
Was it not overthrown and totally discomfited atFenny Stanton?
They were small townships these in the fenny countries, and rustical and wild.
But, Hereward, is not all the country, save this most fenny part of it, quietly submitting to the Conqueror!
Both are situated on slightly rising ground, with broad green meadows and a flat, fenny country stretching around them.
I question whether fenny Holland and fruitful Tweed, in other words, a marsh and a river, could form a favourable medium for communicating the influence of the quickening fire below.
Quickened with fire below, your monsters breed In fenny Holland, and in fruitful Tweed; And, like the first, the last affects to be Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Quickened with fire below, your monsters breed In fenny Holland, and in fruitful Tweed; And like the first the last affects to be, Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Heaven knows, the world seemed a lonely place to this younger son, who had been educated for the Church, and was fain to content himself with a scanty living in one of the dullest and dampest towns in fenny Lincolnshire.
But to Mary, whose experiences of town and country were limited to the dingy purlieus of Oakley Street and the fenny flats of Lincolnshire, this Hampshire village seemed a rustic paradise, which neither trouble nor sorrow could ever approach.
The flat fenny country round me is not flatter or more dismal than my life.
It was an old Hippocratic aphorism that two diseases can not co-exist in the same body, wherefore, gout has actually been cured by the afflicted person going into a fennycountry and catching the ague.
Small lakes are thus formed at the bottom of these sand-hills; and the parched-up ground is gradually converted into a fenny marsh, from which arise the most pernicious exhalations.
Over the porch of the Church at Fenny Drayton is painted now, not the Purefoy motto, but the words: 'I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God.
Right into the very middle, then, of this troubled, seething England, George Fox plunged when he left his home at Fenny Drayton.
On visiting Fenny Drayton, since writing the story, I find, however, that there were a brother and sister Edward and Joyce Purefoy, who lived a few years earlier than the date of this tale.
A few miles from Fenny Drayton is 'the rising ground of Market Bosworth,' better known as Bosworth Field.
Probably no one in Fenny Drayton imagined that in a very few years the smiling English meadows would once more be drenched in blood.
The first he tried was the Reverend Nathaniel Stephens, the priest of his own village of Fenny Drayton.
Even though the fens and marshes have now long ago been drained and turned into fertile country, the village is still called 'Fenny Drayton.
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.
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.
The like in Fenny Seagreen or the water Souldier;[151] which, though a military name from Greece, makes out the Roman order.
Why Fenny waters afford the hottest and sweetest plants, as Calamus, Cyperus, and Crowfoot, and mudd cast out of ditches most naturally produceth Arsmart?
The Gryllotalpa or fencricket common in fenny places butt wee haue met with them also in dry places dung-hills and church yards of this citty.
I made similar inquiries at Fenny Stratford, and again at Dunstable, still without result.
Another quarter of an hour brought us toFenny Stratford.
There is a sort of marshy, fenny feel in the very look, which makes the mind shiver and creep, as if it got the ague before the body was sensible of it.
A wide, fenny piece of uninclosed land stretched out far toward the north and east, only interrupted at the distance of some three miles by an undulating rise of woodland.
The inferior clays and marls are not visible except in some brick pits near Fenny Compton and along the line of railway.
Those on land had to scramble over rocks and precipices, to struggle through swamps and fenny streams; or cut their way through tangled thickets, which reduced their clothes to rags.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boggy; damp; dank; dewy; humid; marshy; miry; moist; muddy; muggy; paludal; rainy; sticky; swampy; tacky; wet
