| 单词 | fen |
| 例句 | In the icy compartment of the train that sliced across the fens back to Cambridge that evening, Watson sketched what he remembered of the picture on the edge of a newspaper. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All they discovered was a strange, sweet smelling spoor that led twistingly into the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since they’d entered the fens he had been more and more good tempered, as if the savage gloom his face showed outside were only a disguise. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “We have a lovely view of the fens from the hilltop,” Orwen put in with such enthusiasm that her necklace bounced and rattled. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z But, being Lyra, she didn’t fret about it for long, for there was the fen town to explore and many gyptian children to amaze. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Almost every Sunday afternoon Dad wanted to take a long nap in peace, and so he gave us thirty fen to rent picture books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The creatures of the fen knew who—and they were frightened. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes towards the fens of Entwash Vale far away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If you read the books at Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, you could rent sixty picture books for thirty fen. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I reckon it’s a spirit,” Lyra said, and for a moment she was tempted to throw the little thing into the middle of the fen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if whole armies were on the march, though for the most part they were hidden by the reeks and fumes drifting from the fens and wastes beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The Poet tells us, ‘Each mortal beast must find its Ground—be it forest or fen or field or fire.’ The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z ‘Too late now to turn aside. The fens of Entwash must guard our flank. Haste now we need. Ride on!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The fen shook then with unnatural storms as it witnessed their loathsome embracings. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Where we have hedged fields and parklands, they had village communities, moorlands, fens and forests of enormous size. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I -notice a slight curl fen her lip and suppress a grin myself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘It will be quicker so. The ground is firmer in the Eastemnet, where the chief northward track lies, across the river, but Shadowfax knows the way through every fen and hollow.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He listened to the hideous howling dying away across the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blind mole, a wicked dew from unwholesome fen drop you,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The young man was riding mournfully through the fen country—which had not been drained in those days and was probably the wildest part of England. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was the smell of the fen, once he was out in it, that surprised Beowulf most. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It was chief of all the horrors of the fen, and even the angry rats turned tail and fled when they saw its grisly head emerging. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "We will find Unferth and torture the wretch until he confesses! He's out there in the fen somewhere, drooling over the monster's arm, mad and bad and—" "I was coming to that," Beowulf explained patiently. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, with many halts and detours, the Costas’ boat drew nearer the fens, that wide and never fully mapped wilderness of huge skies and endless marshland in Eastern Anglia. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z An exultation of larks rose from the fen itself. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It was actually a wicked dew from an unwholesome fen, but I'm a lot smarter than Romeo, and I know when to shut up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The music of the harp and the happy shouting of the warriors echoed out across the dark fen and drowned the crying of birds that flew in the night. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Grendel had wanted to take him for his own, to bear him off to where he belonged, to join the baleful company of the fen; but he, Unferth, had held back through fear. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with a sigh, a kind of moan, I start very carefully down the cliffs that lead to the fens and moors and Hrothgar’s hall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The fen rang with their shouts of joy. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always there, out there in the fen, living on in the veins of the children of Cain. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Hake handed fen a hollow heel of bread filled with burnt bacon and chunks of salt fish warmed in bacon grease. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The fens grew more wet, opening into wide stagnant meres, among which it grew more and more difficult to find the firmer places where feet could tread without sinking into gurgling mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You still called me a blind mole and hoped—let me see if I can get this right—you hoped that an unwholesome dew from a wicked fen would drop on me.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The fens and wild woods of England were alive with them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On either side and in front wide fens and mires now lay, stretching away southward and eastward into the dim half-light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “In two ways, Dr. Lanselius. First, I’m anxious to get in touch with a witch lady I met some years ago, in the fen country of Eastern Anglia. Her name is Serafina Pekkala.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It stood tall and firm on the edge of the misty fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t visible, because the clouds were low and by statute airships had to keep a certain height above fen country, but who knew what cunning spy devices they might carry? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud. But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The fen was full of evil things that feared the light. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z As the train trundled through the darkening fens, Bateson read a copy of de Vries’s paper—and was instantly transmuted by Mendel’s idea of discrete units of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Beyond it, shrouded in mist even on a day like this, lay the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z In the heart of the night, in the darkest dark of the darkness, something stirred from the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ding offers a few variants on traditional Guilin mi fen, including a gloss of truffle oil, which brings a faint perfume and extra weight on the tongue: interesting, but unnecessary. Rice Noodles Stretching From Guangxi to the East Village 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And even the atmosphere has thoughts: "The fog was everywhere but thickest on the fen, for that is the lowest ground and the air knows it – the land has been underwater before." Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z We are back in the broad, wild coastal landscapes of northern France, for which Britain's nearest equivalent is the East Anglian fen, a world of largely unsmiling, often unspeaking characters represented by non-professional actors. Hors Satan (Outside Satan) – review 2013-01-03T15:30:01Z I would give anything to have written his parody of overstrained journalistic writing: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.” By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The watery fens or deprived areas of London sit more comfortably with the zeitgeist. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z Salt is that curious phenomenon: a local publishing house – it's still based in offices in the Cambridge fens – that truly thinks global, with branches in Australia and the US as well as the UK. Ten years of publishing worth its Salt 2010-07-30T13:45:00Z Trampling through moorland, fens and heaths, Hayden reflects on the meaning of life and the excesses of materialism and muses extensively on music, consulting Plato, Epicurus, Hegel and Kierkegaard along the way. Into the Wild: Three books celebrate the joys of life in nature 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And yet the literary landscape of this most remote and unassuming of the English counties – just over 2,000 square miles of agricultural land, rivers, fens, towns and forests – is subtly strange and wild. Ian Sansom: the secrets of literary Norfolk 2013-07-26T15:15:00Z The making of Peterborough, a new town in the fens, is explored in Parkway Dreams, a new musical play which is being toured by Eastern Angles at venues all over Peterborough this week. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-12T12:06:57Z Almost singlehanded, he rescued the craft of editorial cartooning from a fen of mediocrity, then turned his sharp pen on the most important issues of his long lifetime, from tyranny to human rights. The Man Who Made Presidents Cringe: HBO’s Herblock 2014-01-27T10:45:19Z Better is lao you fen, translated here as “old-buddy style” noodles, street food from Mr. Ding’s hometown, Nanning. Rice Noodles Stretching From Guangxi to the East Village 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z From the car, still some way off, we saw a cloud of vapor emerging from the muddy fens. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In the fens, Brunt is very far from home, liable to crises of heart and spirit. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The 32-year-old photographer from Suffolk, who has previously documented fen skaters in rural Cambridgeshire, said he was drawn to a ploughing match for the same reason: a celebration of hobbies in rural communities. Following the plough: A snapshot of a disappearing skill 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z She was born near the Alps, probably in southern Germany, and moved to the flat, Cambridgeshire fens at some point after she turned seven. Trumpington burial: Teenage Anglo-Saxon girl's face revealed 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams. What a pending Supreme Court ruling could mean for Biden’s new clean water protections 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Then, one day, he struck fen skating gold. 'The joy of fen skating is a great metaphor for life' 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The Sacketts’ property was connected to a fen and, thence, to the lake, via a “shallow subsurface flow” of moisture, the agency advised, making it subject to the 1972 Clean Water Act. Opinion | Can the Supreme Court navigate this clean-water swamp? 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Peat’s promise is already inspiring some mega-projects in swamp forests, bogs, and fens, many thousands of miles away from the Delta. Carbon Credits Versus the “Big Gulp” 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The species is only found near a flowering plant called grass of Parnassus, which, in the Northeast United States, only grows in alkaline wetlands, or fens. To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Mammals like the red squirrel and water vole, birds like the curlew and plants such as the fen orchid squeezed out by loss of habitat and pollution. Climate change: Wildlife and plant species decline 'a crisis' 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z When photographer Harry George Hall began reading about fen skating, he decided to make his way to rural Cambridgeshire to see it for himself. 'The joy of fen skating is a great metaphor for life' 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Malone said the proposed reservoir locations could include areas that are home to fens, a type of wetland that is rare in the arid West and supports plant biodiversity. Front Range water demands have far-reaching impacts 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z New factors include ‘zombie fires’, which smoulder in carbon-rich peat below the surface for months or years, and the burning of what were thought to be ‘fire-resistant’ ecosystems, such as tundra bogs, fens and marshes. Daily briefing: One million people have died from COVID-19 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy, however, is able to know the location of every A. parnassiae population in northern Jersey because they will always be found around grass of Parnassus, which only grows in fens. To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z “There are public concerns about these fens and wetlands,” she said. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z "After subscribing to weather alerts for obscure corners of East Anglia," says Mr Hall, "I made many trips to fen skating 'hotspots' to find thin or melted ice, rain or flooded roads." 'The joy of fen skating is a great metaphor for life' 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z When water quality experts from the Bear Creek Watershed tested the lake and nearby wetlands, called fens, they expected to find pristine water at the utility’s highest water source. Biologists study poop to see what’s killing Mt. Evans’ goats 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Every type of naturally occurring wetland has suffered — from ponds, freshwater swamps and coastal marshes, to fens, bogs and other peatlands. Bringing the world’s buried wetlands back from the dead 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The duo had driven up to a small fen in late summer on the edge of White Lake, in Hardwick Township. To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z And they would drill the holes away from fens just for the purpose of assessing the bedrock below. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z He found no sign of skaters or a wonky telegraph pole often referred to in fen skating circles. 'The joy of fen skating is a great metaphor for life' 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The fens, which serve as watering holes for goats, bighorn sheep, deer and marmots, also had unexpected amounts of red algae. Biologists study poop to see what’s killing Mt. Evans’ goats 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z From here, they help oversee the Sagehen Experimental Forest, nine thousand acres of mountain meadows, alkaline fens, and pristine streams surrounded by dense stands of Jeffrey and lodgepole pine. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Until recently, the plant floated across fens, ponds and reservoirs in Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe. This Carnivorous Plant Invaded New York. That May Be Its Only Hope. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Aurora and Colorado Springs are planning to flood these wetland fens and replace natural storage with a man-made system: a $500 million dam and a reservoir that may require changing wilderness boundaries. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Whether swamp, fen, bog or tidal salt marsh, wetlands are complex ecosystems that filter pollutants, sequester carbon and prevent flooding. A century of psychiatry, the realities of migration, and Greenland’s ticking ice clock: Books in brief 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The internationally protected fen orchid grows in the wild in only two locations in the UK. Bid to bring rare orchid to firing range 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z BOSTON, England — Here in the fens of Lincolnshire, the shock troops in the 2016 campaign for Britain to leave the European Union won their greatest victory. Hardcore Brexiteers push to leave European Union with no deal ahead of key vote 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The winner, announced Thursday, was fen, or “striving.” Dirt-poor and ugly — the proud new mantra of those left behind in the new China 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z She found, about 15 inches underground, partially decayed roots, twigs and the cold moisture of a fen. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Gorey created the animated introduction—gravestones crumbling, corpses sliding into fens—and it was almost as popular as the shows. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Similar work by the charity at Kenfig Nature Reserve, near Bridgend, saw the fen orchid population increase from just 40 to 1,500 in five years. Bid to bring rare orchid to firing range 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z We don’t just flit randomly around in gardens and fens. The Imagined Story Behind Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The winners of this vote were the common starfish, the fen raft spider, the lesser spotted catshark, the Asian yellow legged hornet and the otter. How genome study can save otters, eagles and lonely featherworts 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Malone has been digging about 20 holes a day, surveying fens for the U.S. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z If you’re lucky, your guide might help you find specimens of the rare fen orchid. Fat-biking: the miracle solution to cycling on sand 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The only other place in the UK where it grows wild are the fens of East Anglia. Bid to bring rare orchid to firing range 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Mark Cocker, a British author and environmentalist, bought Blackwater, a five-acre plot of damp fen woodland, in 2012, with the aim of returning it to a state of nature. Brexit is reverberating in British literature 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s a wooden decoy duck, staked to the bottom of the fen. Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z This would challenge a federal policy laid out in 1999 at Interior Department regional headquarters in Denver that classifies fens as “irreplaceable.” Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z But in the main food-growing areas of England – the East Anglian fens, for instance – unemployment rates tend to be low. They say after Brexit there’ll be food rotting in the fields. It’s already started | John Harris 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z The Great Fen Project in Cambridgeshire seeks to connect the last fragments of undrained fen and restore a unique wetland once home to the extinct large copper butterfly. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z A boardwalk allows visitors access to the fen and close-up view of the orchids. Flowers lovers flock to Vermont bog for wild orchids 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Ahead of the excavators, the canal is a mere incision through the fens. A possible future for Haiti 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The policy says “onsite or in-kind replacement of peat wetlands is not thought possible” and that “concentrated efforts will be made to encourage relocation of proposed reservoirs… that might impact fens, when practicable.” Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Some wild plants, such as wood calamint and fen ragwort, are now found naturally only on road verges. Road verges 'last refuge' for plants - conservation charity - BBC News 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z He added that the plight of the critically endangered fen ragwort was “particularly striking”. UK's rarest plants are at risk of extinction, charity warns 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The committee also says some of the UK's most fertile land - the peat fields of the East Anglia fens - are suffering badly from decades of intensive farming. Climate change: Advisers warn of climate change domino effect - BBC News 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z As a result of this increase, the zoo says it no longer needs to release captive fen raft spiders. Hundreds of Mouse-Sized Spiders Released in U.K. To make a new dam and reservoir more palatable, the cities are exploring unprecedented “mitigation” of digging up and physically removing the underground fens, then hauling them and transplanting them elsewhere to restore damaged wetlands. Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z The biggest skies in England loom above the fens, in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire, on the country’s eastern edge. Footprints, Size 10, from Britain’s Bronze Age 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z In the English fens, it seems, old barns are just as good. Cool beans 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It would rise from the Essex meadows as a future hub, designed by Lord Foster and equidistant between London’s silicon roundabout and Cambridgeshire’s silicon fen. This Heathrow report got Cameron off the hook. But it won’t be the last word | Simon Jenkins 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It was planted by a visitor to the fen whose relationship to nature was very different from that of my niece’s. The Living Beauty of Wicken Fen 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Legend has it that crown jewels, gold and money were lost in the medieval mud of the fens in 1216. Lasers reveal clues to lost treasure 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z But, from time to time, the soil pushes up clues, particularly in the fens, where the waterlogged earth creates anaerobic conditions that slow decay. Footprints, Size 10, from Britain’s Bronze Age 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z And at that salary, Mr. Xi couldn’t afford a comfortable two-bedroom apartment in many parts of the city, even if he used every yuan, jiao and fen of his salary on rent. Xi Gets a Raise, But Beijing Apartments Still Out of His Reach 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He travelled around the fens of England in a battered caravan, with a father who was sometimes there, sometimes absent. Inner Worlds: The Word Shed | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Herds of animals — Highland cattle and Polish Konik ponies — now live on the fen, their grazing altering its vegetation as part of a management regime that lets the land develop over time. The Living Beauty of Wicken Fen 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z "Our view now of straight roads and rectangular fields in the fens is not reflective of the landscape the king had to travel through." Lasers reveal clues to lost treasure 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Mountain forests, rugged steeps, marshes and fens–all country that is hard to traverse: this is difficult ground. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Illustrated (Chapter 11: The Nine Situations, Part 1) 2013-11-07T14:12:00Z While woodlands and arable land were widely associated with being part of national war efforts, wetlands - such as peat bogs and fens - were often overlooked, he added. Wetlands' 'vital role in conflict' 2013-09-04T00:57:57Z So, instead, come with me briefly to the fens of Lincolnshire. Why worrying about food miles is missing the point 2013-05-25T23:05:21Z So many people brought lamps to attract moths at night that there were complaints the fen looked lit by streetlights. The Living Beauty of Wicken Fen 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z But she also explained to BBC Nature that the project's intention is not to flood the fens with giant spiders, merely to repair the damage already done. Return of the UK's biggest spider 2012-10-04T01:52:16Z Giant oaks ago when a rise in sea level relative to the land caused rivers to back-up and flood the fens. Giant 5000-year-old oak unearthed 2012-09-26T05:19:14Z By then almost all of the wild fens surrounding it had been drained for agriculture. Wildlife Trusts celebrate 100 years 2012-05-16T09:02:03Z If your latest diamond is somewhat small, speak to us and it will be remembered in moors, fens, and locks. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z There will be no return of the intensive local human interventions that once shaped the fen. The Living Beauty of Wicken Fen 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The next year he took part in the desperate stand against the Conqueror’s rule made in the isle of Ely, and, on its capture by the Normans, escaped with his followers through the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Others regard him as a wind-hero, who disperses the pestilential vapours of the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z We loosed the smallest boat in silence, and getting in, pulled gently round the lower end of the island, making for the fringe of rushes which marked the line of division between river and fen. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Horticulture and market-gardening are of a high order, and flourish especially on the low fen soil and geest grounds along the foot of the dunes in the provinces of North and South Holland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z There was once a great emulation between the Frog and the Mouse, which should be master of the fen, and wars ensued upon it. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Willows are largely grown in the fen district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Let him follow the history of this tract of land, to which the fens were an effectual bulwark on the north-west, and he will find that history to be one of isolation also. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z He rode now as he never rode, By rocky lane and fen; The sick man's wife opened the door: "Father! you come again!" Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z Except where they rise in the fens they call into life a strip of fertile grassland in the midst of the barren sand, and are responsible for the existence of many villages along their banks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The hoary fen, In putrid streams, emits the living cloud Of pestilence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z They are mostly of the shorthorn breed, large numbers of Irish shorthorns being wintered in the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Like the similar land of Holland, these reclaimed fens are excellent for the culture of bulbs, and Lincolnshire has made quite an industry of sending narcissi to the London market. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z It was the Mother Church of a wide district, including its whole island and the fens for miles around. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The morals of the agricultural labourers of the English fen country eighty years ago were a scandal, and the peasantry read nothing; more than half of them could not read. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Under Abbot �gelric the fens were tilled, the monastery grew rich, and the town increased in size, enormous tracts of land being held by the abbey at the Domesday Survey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z He was afterwards compelled to retreat for a brief period into the fens before a superior force led against him by king Stephen in person. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Meanwhile to the south-east, among the marshes and fens of East Anglia, scholarship had found a fitting place to dream and study. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z The eastern boundary of the Fenland needs no such defence, as on this side the higher ground sinks much more abruptly to the fen level. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fennel, fen′el, n. a genus of umbelliferous plants, allied to Dill, but distinguished by the cylindrical, strongly-ribbed fruit, the flower yellow.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In the following year he distinguished himself by a memorable exploit—the pursuit, defeat and capture of a Scottish regiment which had mutinied at Ipswich, and was marching northward across the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The whole country is either fen, wold, or marsh. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The fen areas alone are in course of reclamation from the wild to the cultivated state. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z The shores of Stuntney rise from the fen with most unusual abruptness. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fenugreek, fen′ū-grēk, n. a genus of leguminous plants, allied to clover and melilot. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Below Coria it traverses the series of broad fens known as Las Marismas, the greatest area of swamp in the Iberian Peninsula. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z These tenant farmers, whether in the Marsh, wold, or fen, were very considerable people in days when agriculture was at its best. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z West, north and north-east of this the province is flat and consists of sea-clay or sand and clay mixed, except where patches of low and high fen occur on the Frisian borders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z We have explored the County from end to end, we have mounted her uplands, we have traversed her fens, we have clambered her earthworks, we have entered her churches. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fen, fen, n. a kind of low marshy land often, or partially, covered with water: a morass or bog.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The extensive drainage of our fens and marshes has made it less frequent in England than it formerly was; but in Holland and other continental countries it is abundant. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Enrollees are paid to restore and protect fens and their upland buffer zones and guard against alterations to their hydrology, according to Hathaway Jones, who runs the program in Pennsylvania. Green Blog: For Farmers, a Reward for Helping Bog Turtles 2011-11-14T19:00:06Z The south-eastern portion of the province consists of high fen resting on diluvial sand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z When these were prosperous, the whole district prospered; when misfortune befell them, the fens likewise suffered; and it often took many years for the marks of the ruin to be effaced. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fen, fen, v.t. an exclamatory phrase in boys' games, meaning 'Check!' Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z These fly mostly by night, in long lines, and proceed to the fens and salt marshes, where they feed until daylight. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z She said that the grazing is carefully regulated to protect fens from nutrient impacts and damage to turtle nesting sites. Green Blog: For Farmers, a Reward for Helping Bog Turtles 2011-11-14T19:00:06Z A large part of this has been reclaimed and the sandy soil laid bare, but on the Drente and Prussian borders areas of fen still remain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Till the latter part of the nineteenth century Whittlesea gave its name to a famous mere, lying to the south of the town, and on the very border of the fens. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The substance of his account is as follows: The first condition for the growth of the plants which compose the substance of turf and the surface of the fens, is stillness of the water. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The flesh is considered excellent, on which account it is much sought after by wild-fowl shooters, both on the coast and in the fens. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z GODWIT, a word of unknown origin, the name commonly applied to a marsh-bird in great repute, when fattened, for the table, and formerly abundant in the fens of Norfolk, the Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z There are two things, it is said, not to be found in Aran—corns on the foot and frogs in the fens. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z To this day, however, its course may be traced on the map by the meandering boundary between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk across the fen. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Ye grew beside the Boat of Charon, In murky fens of Stygian gloom, Nor ever, like the rod of Aaron, Shall your grim spindles burst in bloom. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z It is shot from time to time in various parts of Great Britain, especially in the fen countries, to which its habits are best suited. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Having finished my ale, I paid for it, and leaving the Calvinistic farmer still smoking, I departed from Rhyd y fen. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z A night of mediocrity now brooded over the marshy fens of Holland. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The fen problem was early recognised as a matter of national concern, and, from the time of Edward the First onwards, the Crown tried to grapple with it, but by hopelessly futile methods. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z As wicked dew, as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fens, drop on you both! Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z In the fen counties they are still ranked together as 'Half Ducks', and for the same reason. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z They were almost overshadowed by an enormous mountain, which rose beyond the fen on the south. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Disorders fell and chaos, where now law 240 And order reign, should once the fount of light Plunge with its splendors into some dark fen. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The foreshore of the uplands may still be traced on a contour map, and is seen to be deeply indented, with bays running in from the fen and capes running out into it. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z All the infections, that the sun sucks up from fogs, fens, flats, on Prospero fall, and make him by inch-meal a disease! Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z You have no such stately men In your “abolition den,” To march through foe and fen, Nothing dreading! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z From the decaying vegetation and fens rise Jack-o'-lanterns which flit about lightly and mysteriously, as if seeking something in vain. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The younger brothers who had fled to the fens had returned and were fighting the flames. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Littleport is now quite a thriving and prosperous place, with a shirt-factory employing over 300 hands and a most effective system of agriculture in the reclaimed fens around. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z At last the stag forced his way into the thick reed-grown fens and took to the water, with the hero still in hot pursuit. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z They walked onwards as fast as they could, hardly pausing to eat, but there seemed no end to the horrible fen. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z In this little island a lamp was lit whose flame lighted pagan Europe, from the Saxon in his fens to the swarthy folk who came by Greek waters to trade the Orient. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z I wot not how it happened, but I strayed from or was left behind the rest in the fens. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The thought of the Fenland Abbeys leads on to the fascinating story of the draining of the fens. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z When over the fens and marshy slashes of Jamestown Island the eighteenth century dawned in that year of 1700, there were two significant aspects of Virginia architectural history which stand out clearly. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z “Oh, away and away and away, through the forests and fens, through the woods and the wilds, on and on and on.” Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z These people, in the heart of a midland county, lived almost exactly the life that was led at the same period by the dwellers in the fen countries to the eastward. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z None but Saxons can penetrate into these wolds and fens,” spoke up the swineherd quickly. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Thus it came about that the reclamation of the fens went hand in hand with the prosperity of the Abbeys around them. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Our bakers’ ovens, hot-air ovens or stoves, annealing ovens for glass or metal, &c., would all be called fours in French and �fen in German, in common with furnaces of all kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Several millions men, There in the field and fen. City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z Thousands of whooper and bewick swans from the Arctic region settle on the Cambridgeshire fens and north Norfolk coast every winter. Migratory swan cygnet is 'rare' sight in Norfolk 2011-07-29T13:34:47Z I trow that thou didst, for few there be who dwell not among the fens that can find the way out when once within its depths.” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The place possesses some curious wells of warm water, not of any great depth, as such usually are, but penetrating only some ten or twelve feet into the fen deposits. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Put a parallel case:—“A careful analysis of herbs ‘shows’ Dr. Short that the only safe diet for Man is a particular kind of rank grass which grows in the Ely fens. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The Lord hissed for the fly on the fen. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z They are as unlike the primitive ploughboy of the fat fields of Suffolk, of the swamps of Essex, of the fens of Lincolnshire, of the Sussex Downs, as can well be imagined. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z A whole army might lie concealed in its fens and none be the wiser.” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The fen hereabouts is rich in geological and arch�ological remains. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z A larger work than these, however, was the drainage of the fens of the Nene and the Great Ouse, comprehending the wide tract known as the Bedford level. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z A man was wanted for the defence of liberty and spiritual religion, and God prepared this man in the obscurity of a little farm among the fens. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z About his best work there is always a breath of the moor, of the fen or of the sea; for he had lived by them all and had learnt to love them. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z You did say you finish fen I come back. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Here we may to this day see exemplified the ancient local proverb, "Here water kindleth fire;" for barges loaded with fire-wood and turf from the fens still discharge their cargoes at this spot. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z After walking for some time, a fen or marsh lay before us, seemingly half a mile broad, which we had to cross. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Murrell, over ten years ago, demonstrated that the inhabitants of the fens of Lincolnshire had long employed opium as a prophylactic against malaria. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The impulse of love impels him to the secluded fens and marshes of the northland. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z He did say he finish fen I go back. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z This fen is now all drained and become most prosaic cornland. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Foul and offensive exhalations had proceeded, in a remarkable degree, from all pools, and fens, and marshes, in the neighbourhood of the city. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Walking to Belshaw, we mounted our stilts there, and were quickly across the fen. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Alas Pegasus smells his native marshes; instead of making for Olympus, he is off in a wallop to the fens of Lincolnshire! Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z This is easily explained—If you were to walk leisurely through an unwholesome path in the fens, with a little horror of them, you would be sure to have your ague. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Reach, however, has still a local industry; the cutting of the peat, or "turf" as it is here called, in the neighbouring fen, for use as fuel. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z It possibly means people of the fens or marshes, and corresponds to the native word Suomi, which appears to be derived from suo, a marsh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Dame Drury told me their boat was at the carpenter's under repair, and the flat-bottomed punt Drury had taken out, meaning to try for half-duck and snipe, which had begun to appear in the fen. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The drive was most curious over the fens, which are now drained, but of which the soil is so light that they are obliged to marl it all over to prevent its being blown away. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Tidings I bring from the morning’s scout— I’ve borne them o’er mound, and moor, and fen.” Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z The Cathedral is here a conspicuous object, rising high upon its hill over the intervening fen, and only five miles away. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z But as they neared the fen, they passed into shade. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z Above us on one side the ground sloped gradually upward to an oak plantation, thirty yards away; below the terrace there lay a sharp incline which ended at the margin of the fen. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The most basic way to divide Chinese noodles is by flour: rice noodles are called fen, while wheat noodles are mian. The Long Pull of Noodle Making 2011-01-26T03:31:18Z We roasted sweet potatoes and we talked of Marion's men, How they routed all the redcoats, or slew them in the fen. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z From the churchyard of Swaffham Prior we get a grand view over the limitless fen to the northward; Ely Cathedral, ten miles away, rising conspicuous above it. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z They were near the middle of the fen now, and Mother Stork, they thought, must be close at hand. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z As I said again and again, Vliet could not bring accomplices with him without my seeing them on the fen, and I meant to keep a good look-out. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z More than once the mules sank to their bellies in bogs and fens. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z No one ever realises all the soft grey beauty of Ely unless, thanks to his slow progress down the river Ouse, he has seen it gradually arise from the green setting of fen lands. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z But between fen and forest stretched a strip of open grassland furnishing easy access. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z She went to the fen, the beautiful fen, where I went once with the father—such a place! A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z Now the fen was under water, the trees might be plaguy unless I had a light, for the night was darker than nights are wont to be in August. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z In the fens of East Anglia have been found two humeri, one of them immature, of a true Pelecanus, a bird now no longer inhabiting middle Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The to be held on the frozen Cambridge fens since 1997. 2010-01-11T05:40:00Z Springs feeding the fen are plentiful, and the ground is still very much of a swamp. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z "She has gone to the fen!" she cried. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z At that time of the year, the middle of August, there was choice of three modes of crossing the fen. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The feasibility of reclaiming some portion of these fens received the attention of the Romans. Cathedral Cities of England From my own knowledge, I can speak of another charm for the ague, in which the fen people put great faith, viz. a spider, covered with dough, and taken as a pill. Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc First comes Snailwell, with the flint-built round tower of its little church rising so picturesquely above the "well," now a broad, clear pond, from which the little river Snail crawls away into the adjacent fen. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z She had dropped into some distant part of the fen—where, the children could not see. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z I lay at the window, in a bad humour enough that I was as useless as a log, looking out over the fen, and I saw boats on the river. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Thus full of council to the fen she went, Full all the way, and longing for a vent. Heathen Mythology The foregoing charm was told to me a short time since by the agent of a large landed proprietor in a fen county. Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Soham, as has been said, was on all sides surrounded by fen, except on the narrow ridge of firm ground between it and Fordham. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z ‘For safe the herds range field and fen, Full-headed stand the shocks of grain.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The caterpillar of this species may be found in the fens during the greater part of the summer. Butterflies and Moths (British) And even if an O.E. grendel as a common noun meaning "gutter" were authenticated, it seems unlikely to me that places were named "the fen," "the mere," "the pit," "the brook"—"of the gutter." Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn The bird feeds on worms and other small animals, which it scoops up from the mud of the marshes and fens that it frequents. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Within sight of Soham, across the fen to the east, and only three miles away, stood for awhile another House of Religion, the Priory of Isleham. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z President Goodell has told the story of how the monks cleared and reclaimed the land, transformed fens into forests, marshes into gardens, and swamps into beautiful domains. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Several of these insects are very common, and most of them abound in fens and marshes. Butterflies and Moths (British) He enjoyed himself riding and shooting, and especially in catching beetles in the fens. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Southward, the Danube encircles a vast fen, tenanted only by waterfowl and herds of half-wild swine, while the plain which extends to the north-east and east only grows fertile at some distance inland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The landscape consists for the most part of waste stretches of heath, occasionally slightly overlaid with high fen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" A forced march of ten hours through fens and silent virgin woods brought us at last to the hummock region; the plain swelled into mounds, and the currents of the sluggish bayous became more perceptible. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Grani floundered in the fen: His saddle girth brake in pieces twain. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes He was really a cattle farmer, with a big grazing farm that lay along the river Ouse, in what is termed "the fen country" of England. Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 The country must have been largely covered by forests and intersected by fens. The Towns of Roman Britain It lies in a flat agricultural fen district, drained by numerous cuts, some of which are navigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Your honor, I am Landolin of Reutersh�fen; this is my house; out there are my fields, my meadows, my forests. Landolin Industries.—The climate is as a whole healthy, the fens being so carefully drained that diseases to which dwellers in marshy districts are commonly liable are practically eliminated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" To-day the world honors and revels that sturdy farmer of the fens as Britain's mightiest man—Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England. Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 The sky was all blue; the jolly wind blew loud and steady; the windmill sails were spinning; and the willows over all the fen rippling and whitening like a field of corn. The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses These exist for the purpose of regulating drainage, and providing defence against water in fen lands or lands subject to floods from rivers or tidal waters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Madame Pfann went to Reutersh�fen, and listened patiently to his wife's lament that her life was changed since her husband's hat hung no longer on its accustomed nail. Landolin Eastward and northward it no doubt forms the floor of the Fen country, and at Thorney and Whittlesea small patches rise like islands, through the level fen alluvium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Marion made no answer, but quietly arranged the bunch of forget-me-nots, culled the previous day in the fen, and utterly regardless of her cousin’s words, pinned them on her breast, with a sad smile. The Sapphire Cross Tacitus states that the ancient Germans hanged criminals of any rank, but those of the low classes were drowned beneath hurdles in fens and bogs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" And guard the fens from pirate folk, And keep us all from sin, To walk in honesty, good sirs, Of thought and deed and word! Rewards and Fairies In the dominion of intellectual wonders there are many fair fields, and only one corner which is a stagnant fen. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde He lieth under the lotus trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen. The Bible Story They are a long tailed gnat, such as are in all fens and low grounds in England, and I think have no other difference from them than the name. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts The soil consists almost entirely of sand and gravel, and is covered with bleak moorland, patches of wood, and fen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" As for our snakes, which in Latin are properly named angues, they commonly are seen in moors, fens, loam walls, and low bottoms. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison A pullet in the pen Is worth a hundred in the fen! The Nursery Rhymes of England Faint and uncovered, over moor and fen, The weary man has come his doom to meet, The storms of winter beat upon his head, The record of his failing time is read. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 Come to my call again, Swift over field and fen, Mountain and deep; Come, bid the waves be still; Sleep, streams on height and hill; Beasts, birds, and snakes, thy will Conquereth, Sleep! Tales of Troy and Greece The work is conducted on a regular system of fen colonization, the first operation being directed towards the drainage of the country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" He should be made handy to your signals—IV. to VII. and X. of 119—so as to hunt the fens and marshes, and "seek dead" exactly where you may wish. The Dog Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The lowlands were covered with primeval forests and fens--only here and there a few scattered settlements appeared on patches of parched tilled land. A Captive of the Roman Eagles So long thy power has blest me, sure it still Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 Two industries have for centuries been associated with the barren heaths and sodden fens so usually found together on the sand-grounds, namely, the cultivation of buckwheat and peat-digging. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" This fine insect, once common in the fens, but now extinct owing to extensive drainage, is generally admitted to be peculiar to our island, at all events as a variety or local form. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras During the first period, the lands inclosed consisted mainly of common arable fields; during the second, many great tracts of moor and fen were reduced to severalty ownership. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Witch-lights mocked at me on the fen; And through the forest followed then Gaunt eyes of wolves; and ghosts of men Moaned by me on the plain. The Garden of Dreams What though the waters of the sullen fen seem to pollute the snow of the swan? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The sky was all blue; the jolly wind blew loud and steady; the windmill-sails were spinning; and the willows over all the fen rippling and whitening like a field of corn. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) It was moated on the south by the river, which it controlled; by fens on the north; and on the east by the marshy low ground of Wapping. Old and New London Volume I This bird, as monotonous in its call-note as the corn-crake, to which it is closely allied, doubtless has its home in the marshes hereabout, in which, and in fen countries, it greatly delights. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land For Scandinavia, I would simply substitute the fen districts of Friesland, Oldenburg, Hanover, and Holstein—all of them the old area of the Frisian. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies It was about eleven o'clock, and to avoid the night air of the fens, we were walking in a bower, shaded over with hazel bushes. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 To the north runs the great Forty-foot Drain, also called Vermuyden’s, after the Dutch engineer whose name is associated with the fen drainage works of the middle of the 17th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" I was much surprised when I found first how individual it was, by a Pre-Raphaelite painter's declaring a piece of unwholesome reedy fen to be more beautiful than Benvenue. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' The banks of the stream in front of him were perhaps fen feet high and sloped sharply to the water's edge, fairly free from tangle. The Wilderness Trail Thou shalt with me to green wood Through mire, moss, and fen! Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse About the year 1766, I was in Lincolnshire, in England, and on a visit at the house of a widow lady, Mrs. E____, at a small village in the fens of that county. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 My second it qualifies, also my third, Though a high fen between can't be crossed nor be stirred. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls They were told not to go to the fen; But the did not obey, you know. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 These fens accommodate great numbers of monks with their desired retirement and solitude, with which, being enclosed, they have no occasion for the privacy of a wilderness.’ East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations There are numerous local names in the fens, of which the history may be traced for some centuries, deserving investigation. Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Dismal fens ... where fever exhaled its dread gray breath thick over swamp and lagoon ... above, the vast �gis of the firmament, 329wrought in a diamond dust of stars ... a sickly, jaundiced, moon tilted drunkenly.... The Missourian The country between Norwich and Yarmouth is like the ugliest parts of Holland, swampy and barren; the fens of Lincolnshire flat and uninteresting, though admirably drained, cultivated, and fertile. Records of Later Life Said she, "Now, froggies dear, You must not go to the fen: There is no danger here, And I'll soon come back again!" Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Do we show them the path "o'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent," to the heights that kiss the stars? The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching He, where the deep unearthly jungles are, Beneath his Eastern star Shall pass the tawny lion in his den And cross the quaking fen. Collected Poems Volume Two We were soon at the place; it stood on a very gentle rising ground, once an island above the fen. The Thread of Gold Whom late bewilder’d in the dank, dark fen, 105 Far from his flocks, and smoking hamlet, then! The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir It was located at the eastern end of the village, where its ruins still stand up as a guide across the fens, seen from afar. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel So also in Ella: “Fen-vapours blast thy every manly power!” taken from the same author: “As wicked dew as e’er my mother brushed “With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen, “Light on you both!” Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) You are not our Kit Marlowe, But the drunkard with the knife; Not Marlowe, but the Jack-o'-Lent That lured him o'er the fen! Collected Poems Volume Two Bog and moss and fen Are only poor to undiscerning men. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth It was approached along a high causeway crossing the fen, with rich black land on either hand. Beside Still Waters Located in the Isle of Axholme, in the midst of a long stretch of fen country bounded by four rivers, and for a great part under water, Epworth was at that epoch dreariness itself. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Ada Cambridge is a native of Norfolk, the lonely fens and quaint villages of which are a picturesque background of some of her best stories. Australian Writers Two ways being shown him, he chose the shortest, though the most troublesome, nay, almost impassable, by reason of a fen which he was forced to go through. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Learning of a monster meeting of science fiction "fen" in New York, I teleported myself 3,000 miles from the Pacificoast to check the facts on the monsters. Out of This World Convention At Agnadello, against the troops of Venice, he waded with his men through fens and ditches, took the picked bands of Lord d'Alvicino on the flank, scattered them to the winds, and won the day. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The hippopotamus is supposed by many to be identical with the behemoth of Scripture, which is described as a beast "that lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed and fens." Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The Isle of Ely was in those days a real island in the midst of the waters of the fens. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII I dreamed of the fens and the wildwood last night, mistress. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls For many a day They roved the sweeping meads and fens and fells In fruitless search, and ever forth again Relentlessly he drove them from his hold Beside the dimpling waters of Lough Leane. Sprays of Shamrock In the winter, when the broad fens north of the walls were frozen, they skated. The History of London The Persians, being unacquainted with the country, got involved in fens and morasses, and other difficulties of the way, and their progress was thus so much impeded that the Scythians reached the river before them. Darius the Great Makers of History The land between the Stour and the great fen which in those days stretched far inland from the Wash was occupied by two of these groups, known as the North folk and the South folk. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The name Asia, again, comes, it has been thought, from the muddy fens of the rivers of Asia Minor, such as the Cayster or Mæander, which struck the imagination of the Greeks living near them. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold It was Sir Frederick Hamilton’s men Were hungry for the fray, And it was a son of the bog and fen Would guide them on their way. Sprays of Shamrock Some of the best came from the fen districts of Lincoln and Cambridge, where they had been trained to execute works of excavation and embankment. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson These worms are said to be more frequent in some parts of this kingdom than in others, as near the fens of Lincolnshire. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Many took refuge in fens or woods, or fled to those portions of the island in which their countrymen were still independent. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The whole country was now, in fact, a vast expanse of marshes and fens. Hannibal Makers of History Oh, it ’s ride, Sir Frederick Hamilton’s men, Ye men of ire and brawn, And it ’s smile, ye son of the bog and fen, To see them urge swift on! Sprays of Shamrock For pleasant was that Pool; and near it, then, Was neither rotten marsh nor boggy fen. A History of Elizabethan Literature "Dancing in murky night o'er fen and lake," which we may dispose of in a section by themselves. Moon Lore He would lay his head quite round over his tail, and clatter with his beak, as if it had been a rattle; and then he would tell them stories all about the marshes and fens. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen “Sticklebacks were formerly found in such large quantities in fen waters that they were made a source of considerable profit, being boiled down for the oil they contained, and the refuse sold as manure.” Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Oh, it was Sir Frederick Hamilton’s men Set forth to smite and slay, And it was a son of the bog and fen That guided them on their way! Sprays of Shamrock This wight wallowed in the fen Almost to the ankle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 He had lived with a “familiar spirit” so long, he feared the issue of this next excursion into the fens of crime. Northern Lights Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The fen soil is a mass of decayed vegetation, chiefly moss, interlarded with silt, deposited by the sea, which formerly made its oozy way as far as Lincoln. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The day before Christmas came bleakly to its end over dingle and fen, and the last gray light died away. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Advancing cautiously by means of a causeway through the fens, he entered Ely in October, and therewith the last flicker of independence died out. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History While far through the pain of waste places We tread, ’tis a blossoming rod That drives us to grace from disgraces, From the fens to the gardens of God!’” Northern Lights He kept her beside him, standing silent and patient in a certain soppy, sodden spot by the river, waiting for the chance of a wild duck flying homeward above the low-lying mists of the fens. A Sheaf of Corn An old writer says “The air of the fens was crass, and full of rotten harrs.” Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter But it turned out to be a little fen made by a tiny spring. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks There's a difference between fen o'er and fair well. The Proverbs of Scotland The swallow-tail butterfly, first on some British lists, must be sought for in the fens of Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, and Northamptonshire. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. A light and nearly flat-bottomed boat used in our eastern fens for shooting wild-duck. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Cattle in former frozen fen floods were thus ruptured and killed. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Down and down they tramped, chopping away smaller obstructions, until they were stopped by a wide fen that belted the section. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks When we got among the Lincolnshire fens it began to snow. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Others, still, attempted to conceal themselves in thickets and fens till the vast throng which was sweeping onward like a tornado should have passed. William the Conqueror Makers of History The sudden flowing of the sea, called in the fens of Lincolnshire, acker. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A sort of dredge, with hooks below it, to clear out fen drains of the weeds. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter I leave my marshes and my fens; I dream no more upon my way; But forward press, a river grown, In the great world my part to play. In Ancient Albemarle Excourbani�s roared, undiscouraged, and the echoes repeated, till sight and sound were lost, his Tarasconese intonations: "Ha! ha! ha! fen d� brut!" Tartarin On The Alps The tapir returns to his home in the fens, The marmots are off to their underground dens, And the wishtonwish marmot, the kind prairie dog, Makes room in his hole for the tortoise and frog. The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A navvy employed in digging or repairing fen drains. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The Frogs, roaming at large in their marshy fens, with loud clamour demanded of Jupiter a king, who, by his authority, might check their dissolute manners. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes How eagerly they listened to his story, and how they vied with one another for the glory of bearing his armour, his spoils, and his weapons back over the moorlands and the fens to Heorot. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race Away then hied the heir of Linne O'er hill and holt, and moor and fen, Until he came to lonesome lodge, That stood so low in a lonely glen. The Book of Brave Old Ballads Lucy's cat—guided by what instinct only his Creator and ours knows—had found his way to her grave over two hundred miles of fen, field, and forest. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood We cannot follow the steps of the great conqueror in his memorable campaigns—in his fatal march over the fens of Etruria, or through the glorious field of Thrasymene. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 There was a Bull-fight in the fen, A Frog cried out in trouble then, “Oh, what perdition on our race!” The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes She arose from her dwelling in the gloomy lake, followed the fen paths and moorland ways to Heorot, and opened the door. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race From Lerna's fens a salty breeze blew free, And stirred the locks that fell his shoulders down And wreathed his forehead like a golden crown. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 By mountain stream, In sands, in fens, they died—no mother near! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The England of 1802 seemed to Wordsworth a fen of stagnant waters. William Pitt and the Great War He feels he can pass safely over the "moor", the "fen", the "crag", and the "torrent", by trusting to the guidance of the light. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature In spite of all, the monster seized Aschere, one of King Hrothgar’s thanes, and bore him away to the fens, leaving a house of lamentation where men had feasted so joyously a few hours before. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race So long thy power hath blessed me, sure it still Will lead me on O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till The night is gone. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide She scaled the seaward crests, And on the sands piled turtle eggs, when all About hoarse-shrieked the water-fowl, or call Of plovers fell among the tangled glens, Or lonely bitterns’ boom came o’er the fens. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman The reclamation of wastes and fens was an advantage to all but the very poor, who, as graziers, wood-cutters, or fishermen, dragged along a life of poverty but independence. William Pitt and the Great War Image the "moor", the "fen", the "crag", the "torrent", and "with the morn". Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature He replied: ‘Go where thou wilt, I follow to the last Or die forlorn: but this proud sheriffs troop Will flee before our onset, to the fens.’ Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race All the infections that the Sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal410-1 a disease! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 The French had followed fast upon their heels, but the Germans had plunged in unwieldy panic into the labyrinth of the woods and fens. The Story of Rouen No wonder; it was among the fens of Lincolnshire, and, after certain deductions, scarcely produced a hundred a year. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea What phases of experiences of life are suggested by "moor", "fen", "crag", and "torrent"? Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature There are no extensive pasturages, even in the mountain districts of Germany, as there are in the Highlands of Scotland, and in the fens of Lincolnshire and Kent. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II “I, sir?” he said, as though awaked from a reverie; “Oh, I live at Fuzby, a village on the border of the fens, and in the very middle of the heavy clays.” St. Winifred's, or The World of School Many a field now bearing good crops each year, was in “the good old times” moorland or fen. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet My dignity shouts angrily about my dead fens; but my interest whispers significantly about my living children. Mushrooms on the Moor Note.—To answer this, there should be an effort to image a moor, a fen, a crag, or a torrent clearly. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Always full early his pirogue came gliding out of the woods and up through the bushy fen to the head of canoe navigation and was hauled ashore. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana The railroad, after leaving far behind the glorious hills of Semlyn, passes through country flatter and more uninteresting at every mile, until it finds itself fairly committed to the fens. St. Winifred's, or The World of School Now, divorced from pike and pen, Digging ditch, and draining fen, Sky their ceiling, sand their bed, Fed and flogged, and flogged and fed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 But fog or fen was the same to Bess; her hoofs rattled merrily along the road, and she burst from a cloud, like Eöus at the break of dawn. Rookwood Over bog, and fen, and boulder, I must bear it on my shoulder, Beaten of wind, torn of briar, Smitten of rain, parched of fire: O silence, silence, silence! Songs of Childhood It professes to treat of "Draining in General," and then of the draining of boggy land and of fens, but gives no intimation that any other lands require drainage. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles His paths were subterranean,—through the tepid swamp water, the shallow graves of the dead; and aerial,—through the stench of rotting animals, the nightly miasms of bog and fen. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War For an ague-doctor must have had much employment, and if successful, great renown, in those days of fens, marshes and undrained ground. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery “I am a traveller, and put up here on my way to the fens,” answered Jack. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea He lieth under the shady trees in the covert of the reeds and fens. Olla Podrida As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye And blister you all o’er! The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] I was frequently obliged, by the crowded state of the roads, to turn aside into woods, fens, and fields, and so make precarious progress. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Again the foul tracks of the monster were found where it had padded softly back to its noisome fens. A Book of Myths “We live like princes here, as far as food is concerned; and when the weather allows it, and we can send across the fens, we could always get a good market for our game.” John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Not here, Not among modern kinds of men; But in the stony fields, where clear Through the thin trees the skies appear, In delicate spare soil and fen, And slender landscape and austere. Poems of To-Day: an Anthology At Ratæ was the Ninth, guarding the low country and the eastern fens. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The ground was damp, and fog was rising from the hollows and fens. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Fortune declared against him, and he retreated, like some Hereward, to the fens. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character “My directions were to conduct you to Master Pearson’s farm in the fens,” said his companion. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea On the trail they had been supreme; in fen or forest, on peak or plain, they were men among men, fighting with nature savagely, exultantly. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance There are no gods in the bogs and fens and on the hills where I tended sheep. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Not here, Not among modern kinds of men; But in the stony fields, where clear Through the thin trees the skies appear; In delicate spare soil and fen, And slender landscape and austere. Later Poems You are going to live, away from your friends, in a horrid country full of moors and fens, where you will catch the autumn fevers. The Devil's Pool You will find Pearson thoroughly trustworthy, and as he advises you to stay for a short time with him in his farm in the fens, I would advise you to accept his invitation. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea The wind was roaring across the flats and fens of Cambridgeshire, driving tiny flakes of snow before it. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes Gave him, to lay the devil who looks o'er Lincoln, A fat fen vicarage, and nought to think on. Don Juan He was educated at Cambridge, and some of his poems have shown, in a striking light, the forgotten beauty of the fens and flats of Cambridge and Lincolnshire. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Much new land came into cultivation or into use for pasture through the draining of marshes and fens, and the clearing of forests. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England A thick rime covered the ground, and a cold air blew across the fens, as the two riders with their charges took their way south. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Library, etc. he low marshy fens of Lincolnshire are particularly rich in monastic remains; but none prove so attractive to the antiquary as the ruins of the splendid abbey of Croyland. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages His jokes were sermons, and his sermons jokes; But both were thrown away amongst the fens; For wit hath no great friend in aguish folks. Don Juan Thus Milton's well-known line— Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. The Principles of English Versification Nothing is more disturbing, nothing, more disquieting, more terrifying occasionally, than a fen. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories He looked at him several times, till at length it struck him that it must be the very man who had guided him to Pearson’s farm in the fens—Ned Burdale. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea There was no mental answer to his question, and he once more went softly across the room, and sat in the window-sill to gaze out across the fen. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp “For not praising your nasty old flat sandy shore, with its marsh beyond, and its ague and bogs and fens.” Cutlass and Cudgel O deep unlovely brooklet, moaning slow Through moorish fen in utter loneliness! The Principles of English Versification A hungry stork he sent them then, Who soon had swallow'd half the fen. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress “I wonder you did not know me again when I came to you as a guide to conduct you to Pearson’s farm in the fens.” John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea The fen, that had been so silent in the hot June sun, now seemed to be alive with peculiar whisperings and pipings. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The black soil of the fen districts and elsewhere is widely different from any of the preceding. Lessons on Soil This climate, our author tells us, cannot afford more benefit to the consumptive than that of the fens of Lincolnshire, or of the marshes of Holland. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 One at least spent immense sums upon the drainage of the fens. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See In the fens he is known as Master Pearson, but he has gone by a dozen different names at various times, and taken up almost as many different characters. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea But there was no discovery made, the constables setting it down to accident, saying that the men must have been smoking; and once more the fen was left to its own resources. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The cause of this removal was the fearful inundations to which, from its proximity to the fens, it was exposed. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents When I first saw Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and the fens of Lincolnshire, I was amazed at the number of spires which presented themselves in every point of view. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 While bishop he executed some important works to improve the navigation and drainage of the fens. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See It’s the better part of six months gone, when Bill Green, who was riding across the fen, made his way to the farm and found not a human soul there. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea “I’ll go over and see how old Tom’s getting on,” he said as he looked across the cheerless fen in the direction of Grimsey, where a faint line of smoke rose up toward the sky. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp They landed in the north, and, having gained some advantages, proceeded southward to the fen country, which they plundered and laid waste with fire and sword. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents I have often thought that those vast extents of fens p. 81have never been sufficiently explored. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 They seized the vast economic chances of pasturage; but they also drained the fens. A Short History of England Push elsewhere all the thick black clouds, over great fens, high forests, and wildernesses. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge There were stoppages when heavy rains fell; but on the whole nature seemed to be of opinion that the fen had lain uncultivated for long enough, and that it was time there was a change. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp To him that sleeps in those dark fens! Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 We have slain the beasts:— The hissing snake, with poisonous fangs; The wolf, whose teeth are red with Indian blood; And the creeping tortoise, the dweller in deep fens; We have slain them. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 The sweet gale, or Dutch myrtle, grows in moorland fens. Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York The second labor was his conquest of the Lernæan hydra, a formidable serpent or monster which harbored in the fens of Lerna, and infected the region of Argos with his poisonous exhalations. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) “He has been coming across the fen path,” said the squire. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The inhabitants, of whom there are only one and a half to the square mile, live here and there among the fens and eke out a miserable existence by frog-fishing and catching flies. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Dear Mrs. Charlesworth, Contributions from the fens or anywhere else will be good. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Is much warmer here than in the Netherlands and Germany, tho' under the same parallel; and, unless in the fens and marshy grounds, it is for the most part very healthy. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses Steps, not from star to star, but fen to fen, That all might follow and not one despair! Freedom, Truth and Beauty A fresh cry came from off the fen, and it was so unmistakably the word “Help!” that the squire and his son increased their pace. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The Grange is situated in the loneliest part of England, the marsh country of the fens to which civilization has still hardly penetrated. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Fuller supposes that he lingers thus in the pleasant fields of Bedfordshire, being in no hurry to enter the more barren fens of Lincolnshire. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 When day dawned again at last, after a night during which no one had closed his eyes, they found themselves hanging over the fens of Holland, many miles from Paris. Chatterbox, 1905. Unfortunately the meagre annals of the time give us no hint of the character or history of the princess who was thus transferred from the fens of Flanders to the marshes of Ravenna. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation “But do you think it will take off all the water, and spoil the fen, Dave?” said Tom. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Here and there where the ground rises slightly above the level of the fens there are dense woods tangled with parasitic creepers and filled with owls. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels The British army had most of its stores carried fen times better by sea. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Several extensive fens, notably that of Chatla, which becomes lakes in time of flood, are characteristic of the plain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The morals of the agricultural labourers of the English fen country eighty years ago were a scandal, and the peasantry read nothing; more than half of them could not read. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Come galloping off here into the fen, and then say you don’t know where we’re going!” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Harry added, as he put on his hunting cap and pulled a huge pair of fen boots on, reaching to the midthigh, which Timothy had garnished with a pair of bright English spurs. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Joyce, left alone, dismounted, in order to lead Snowball herself on the uneven road across the fens. A Book of Quaker Saints I have been wondering whether they are descendents of the Danes and Saxons, who took refuge in the fens in Norman times, a memory of Hereward the Wake. Letters from France Old Matthew was king of the wood-rangers then; And the quails in the stubble, the ducks in the fen, The hare on the common, the birds on the bough, Were afraid. The Dog's Book of Verse Who can help believing in them, when you see them going along over the fen on the soft dark nights!” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp "I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens." Irish Plays and Playwrights Once the weather breaks and the floods are out, there will be no leaving the Manor House again for weeks, save by the causeway over the fens!' A Book of Quaker Saints The fen men have always been a separate race; they must have very little Norman blood in their veins. Letters from France For the fate of the elves is nearly the same As the terrible fate of men; To love, to rue, to be, and pursue A flickering wisp of the fen. Platform Monologues The king in London can’t know what we do down here in the fen. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp And Calvin, night's prophetic bird, Out of his home in hell was heard Shrieking; and all the fens were stirred Whence plague is bred; Can God endure the scoffer's word? A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Even though the fens and marshes have now long ago been drained and turned into fertile country, the village is still called 'Fenny Drayton.' A Book of Quaker Saints The fens and marshes are his cool retreat, His noontide shelter from the burning heat; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Gathering an army, William marched to the fen country and prepared to attack the last of the English in their almost inaccessible Camp of Refuge. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality “Corn-fields and pastures and orchards are all very well, but the old fen does look so lovely now!” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp It will be the same with the Gold Coast, whose present condition is that of the Lincolnshire fens and the Batavian swamps in the days of the Romans. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative I’m thinking wi’ sic a braw fellow, In poortith I might make a fen’; What care I in riches to wallow, If I maunna marry Tam Glen? The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Prompt was thy wit, when, powerless to prevail, Around thee twined, the beast of Lerna's fen Hissed with the legion of its heads. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor If William could afford to neglect a band of outlaws in the fens, he could not rest with these two great earls in arms against him. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He looked longingly across the fen with its gleaming waters, waving reeds, and many-tinted flowers; and as he gazed in the bright afternoon sunshine it seemed as if it had never looked so beautiful before. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp I slackened, he slackened; I fled, he flew; In a swirl of snow-drift all night through I scoured along the gusty fen, A quarry for hunting Kelpie men. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea Sweet is grass—will you pasture your cows in a fen? The Heptalogia To-day I am at home in the little town of the fens, where the Ahwewee River falls some thirty feet from one level of land to another. The Zeit-Geist He had already built himself a castle at Cambridge, and here he dwelt while directing his attack against the outlaws of the fens. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality “Once we get the fen drained, ague will begin to die out.” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp There is no escape by the river, There is no flight left by the fen; We are compassed about by the shiver Of the night of their marching men. More Songs From Vagabondia They journeyed on through glade and fen, 'Till passing near a rocky glen, Mild Patience came and sweetly smiled Upon the path of sorrow's child. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 And as this world, all notched to terrene eyes With Alpine ranges, smoothes to higher ken, So death and sin and social miseries; By God fixed as His bow o'er moor and fen. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art Despite all Hereward's efforts, the causeway slowly but surely moved forward across the fens. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality “Father says it’s all nonsense, and there are no such things in the fens.” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp "This," said the schoolmaster, "is early Tennysonian scenery, a Canadian edition of the fens of Lincolnshire," but he regretted uttering the words when the lawyer agreed with him that it was an of-fens-ive looking scene. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Then, for the first time since that memorable and dreary journey from the fen country, these two, the old man and the maiden, went forth together. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow The season had been unusually dry and favorable to the fen land, as this section is called. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland The fens of Ely, in whose recesses Hereward the Wake had defied the Conqueror, now became the stronghold of a Norman revolt. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality That theer fen was like a battlefield in them days, while now it’s as pleasant a place to look upon as a man need wish to see.” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds,— His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before! The Haunted Hour An Anthology |
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