In the fens were wild men, masterless men, fled slaves, and outlaws, who were hunted in sport as the wolves were hunted.
I have picked berries on the bleak backbone of the world, and I have dug roots to eat from the fat-soiled fens and meadows.
The scattered islets of the Fens of England furnished an asylum to the early British Celts from Teutonic attacks,[732] and later protected them against dominant infusion of Teutonic blood.
In the haruest time fell there a great death and murren amongst cattell, and speciallie in Northfolke, in the fens and other parts of the south.
Life in theFens in the old ante-drainage days is admirably reproduced.
Dick o' the Fens and Tom o' Grimsey are the sons of a squire and a farmer living in Lincolnshire.
If he strayed in the faint blue of the summer dawn, through the fens to the shore, he might reach the wattled cabin of the two old fishermen in the twenty-first idyl.
These fens were drained and enclosed pursuant to an Act of Parliament, which was obtained for that purpose in the year 1766.
To the south of this neck of land, lies a tract called Potteric Carr, which is much below the level of the river, and was a morass, or range of fens when our Doctor first took up his abode in Doncaster.
The Gauls settled on the east coast as far as the Fens and the Wash, whilst the Belgians occupied the south coast, and pushed northwards towards the Somerset Avon.
Many took refuge in fens or woods, or fled to those portions of the island in which their countrymen were still independent.
And though there be on earth fens and dense afflictions, he who hath light feet runneth even across the mud, and danceth, as upon well-swept ice.
These fens are undrained, and unless the weather has been dry for some time, it is difficult to get about in them.
The impulse of love impels him to the secluded fens and marshes of the northland.
Bulbous roots were fairly popping out of the earth; the fens and the edges of the lakes were rich with things to eat, overhead and underfoot the horn of plenty was emptying itself without stint.
The reduction of these was followed by that of East-Anglia; the northmen of the Fens submitted with Stamford, the Southumbrians with Nottingham.
The struggle which ended in the fens of Ely had wholly changed his position.
The Fens proved impassable to the Northfolk and the Southfolk of East-Anglia.
For nearly a century and a half, from the hour when William turned triumphant from the fens of Ely to the hour when John fled defeated from Norman shores, our story is one of foreign masters.
THEY are all standing in the porch, saying "How d'ye do" to half a dozen of their neighbors, and being introduced to the dark young man in the Fens pew.
I suppose we should be thankful for small mercies; but I wish the Fens was a little nearer to this place than it is.
Mid reedy fens wide-spread and marshes drear, Their own creation, till their long career End in the sea engulphed.
In the winter, when the broad fens north of the walls were frozen, they skated.
These coarse white with blue markings pigs were common in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, the Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire, and in the counties of Bedford, Cheshire, etc.
Fuller supposes that he lingers thus in the pleasant fields of Bedfordshire, being in no hurry to enter the more barren fens of Lincolnshire.
Ermine Street ran through theFens from London to Lincoln.
A hasty journey of three days brought him to the fens of Lincolnshire, where he remained a little while concealed in a hermit's hut.
The Fens on the eastern side of the county are underlain by Oxford clay, which here and there projects through the prevailing newer deposit of silt and loam.
Fenchurch Street, Turnmill Street, Fleet Street, show that there were streams and fens to the east and west.
Finsbury and Moorfields take their names from the fens and moors, or meres, which were partially reclaimed from the lake which spread to the north and north-east, almost from the city wall.
I'm meeting them at the edge of the Fens at ten o'clock.
No one had seen him, no one but Borkins had known of his probable journey across the Fens at night-time, and Borkins excused himself upon the plea that Collins hadn't actually said he was going that way.
Stay where you are and I'll put you up for the night, but in Heaven's name don't venture out across the Fens now.
Here were these underground tunnels leading, "if you kept to the right," from a field out Saltfleet way, to the very heart of the Fens themselves.
That part of the Fens in unin'abited and there isn't a soul in the whole village as would venture anywhere near it after dark.
And, if hearsay be true (and in this case I believe it is) you even went so far as to kill a defenceless woman who had been brave enough to wander out across that particular part of the Fens just to see what those flames really were.
I'll swear there was no sight nor sign of them when I've tramped over the Fensdozens of times.
But there's never no trace of the person that ventured out across the Fens at evening time.
Whether he dropped into a public 'ouse on the way or not, I don't know, or whether he took the short cut to the station across the Fens isn't for me to say.
But the doctor did not look back, and so the little party proceeded upon its way in comparative silence until the edge of the Fens was reached.
While outside upon the Fens men were being killed like rats, because one or two of them chose to use their intelligence, and wanted to find out what the flames really were.
A few years ago, this was the pride of British entomology, for we were supposed to have the insect entirely to ourselves, it being unknown on the Continent, whilst it literally swarmed in some of the fens of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
In this country its head quarters are in the fens of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Huntingdonshire.
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