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单词 fenland
例句 fenland
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then there's the fenland, which in winter converts to wonderful marshland, attracting arctic and subarctic wildfowl and geese. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z
The bare expanses of prairies, fenlands, wheatfields and marshes can seem boring, bleak, even frightening. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z
Such cute touches are also occasionally on display in Tim Dee's forthcoming book, Four Fields, in which he roams a field in the Cambridgeshire fenlands, another in Zambia, one in Montana and one near Chernobyl. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z
“I spent so much time rooting around with him in the garden,” she says of her childhood in the fenlands around Cambridge. A Garden Designed to Run Wild 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z
The English fenlands are a gift for a writer. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z
The fenlands also have their tragedy, which begins the moment man starts changing them. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z
Both burst their banks into an area of drained fenland that was already sodden from rain over a period of weeks. How can we stop our village flooding again? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z
Making matters worse is the fact that Fishlake is built on what was once a boggy fenland, that was drained many years ago. What are the factors making floods worse? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z
Take the fenlands in the east of England – a huge expanse of lowland peat. Call to end the 'abuse' of land surface 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z
The charred earthenware, excavated from the Cambridgeshire fenland, looks unremarkable, but the manner of its storage reveals new things about the past. The last crusade 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z
It may, in fact, be typical of other settlements, still undiscovered, beneath the English fenlands. Archaeologists in England Tackle Mystery of Prehistoric Village’s Rapid Demise 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z
Following the excavation, the land will be restored to a mix of fenland habitats and managed as part of the Great Fen reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. WW2 Spitfire to be unearthed from Cambridgeshire fen - BBC News 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z
Excavations of the site shortly after its discovery in 1982 barely scratched the archaeological surface at the site, which stretches across more than a kilometre of fenland. Crowdsourced archaeology dig ends 2012-08-13T07:24:05Z
The movement traces its history to that first small piece of Cambridgeshire fenland. Wildlife Trusts celebrate 100 years 2012-05-16T09:02:03Z
This is the basket-making, for the which the fenland districts of Britain were famed even before the Romans reached the country. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, From her haunts among the fenlands, Screamed "Farewell, O Hiawatha!" A Day With Longfellow 2011-11-13T03:00:15.157Z
Yet the fenland was not altogether a wilderness of reed-grown marsh and watery swamp. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z
To the south and west the slight hills bordering the fenland rise gently. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens"
He rode one day, in the height of summer, for miles across the fenland. Beside Still Waters
The very cornfields and pastures beneath us have been reclaimed from the marsh by man; while, far on the north-east, is "Denvers Sluice" protecting the rich fenland from inundation. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
For the last purpose he purchased from the Crown a tract of fenland, p. 6situated between Revesby and Boston, being an outlying allotment of the original ancient parish of Bolingbroke.  Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
And when at length the Grendel could no more, and with a terrible cry wrenched himself free, and fled, wailing, back to the fenland, still in his grasp Beowulf held the limb. A Book of Myths
In a corner of the Isle of Axholme, in Lincolnshire, and on the eastern slope of a knoll a few feet above the desolate fenland, six sisters were seated. Hetty Wesley
Moreover the flat fenland, which is generally supposed to be unattractive, had always possessed a peculiar charm for Hugh. Beside Still Waters
This magnificent Sluice is the keystone of the whole drainage scheme of the fenland. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
The bustard is gone from Salisbury Plain; the fenland butterflies have disappeared with the drainage of the fens. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Beyond it, and separated by the fenland of the Lea, lay the outlying little principality of Middlesex. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain
Bright moonlight lay spread all about the house and, beyond, the fenland faded away to an unseen horizon as through veils of gold and silver, asleep, no creature stirring on the face of it. Hetty Wesley
Almost the last remnant of the primeval fenland of East Anglia, called Wicken Fen, has been acquired by the Trust, and also Burwell Fen, the home of many rare insects and plants. Vanishing England
Several of the monks bear names which show us that the ancient British stock of the Girvians still survived in the neighbouring fenlands. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
It would not need much to set the tide of war moving westward again, now that our men knew the fenland as well as ever the British learned the secrets of the paths. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
The Ermine Street, however, nowhere touches the fenland; nor did any Gaelic population, so far as is known, abut upon the Watling Street, at any rate after the English Conquest. Early Britain—Roman Britain
The grey of the dawn, the far, desolate reaches of the fenland smitten with winter, the sea-meadows rank with herbage, were stark enough to rejoice his soul. Sons and Lovers
For, as it happened, the flat fenland in which I so nearly sunk was the fenland round the Island of Athelney, which is now an island in the fields and no longer in the waters. Alarms and Discursions
At length she had reached her own fenland country; and here, still following Hilda's example, she set herself to build a monastery, choosing the highest ground available. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
From Dean to Salisbury is all straight road with moor, morass, and fenland on either side, broken only by the single hamlet of Aldersbury, just over the Wiltshire border. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
He, the Heron, prowling about the fenlands of Norfolk to pick off straggling Frenchmen and looking out for the Danes, had heard all the news from the landsfolk. Hereward, the Last of the English
To the east towards fenland, the country is flat, and the river is broad, slow, and deep.  The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)
At any rate swamp and fenlands in England are always especially rich in gay grasses or gorgeous fungoids; and seem sometimes as glorious as a transformation scene; but also as unsubstantial. Alarms and Discursions
Here the fenland folk forgathered with them, for the Norman was a more thoroughgoing oppressor than any Dane; and, in especial, the "strenuous" outlaw Hereward "the Wake" joined them "with his gang." Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
Yet this high cheese, by choice of fenland men, Like a tall green volcano rose in power. A Miscellany of Men
For the Crane and his rabble, flushed with easy conquest, kept ill watch, and the tongues of forest running down to the fenland made a good hunting ground for a wary forester. The Path of the King
So too did the morasses of the fenland. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
The Isle, which contains the whole of the fenland forming this northern half of Cambridgeshire, is far older as a political entity than the southern part of the county. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
Starting from the Cam at Clayhithe it runs along the whole western limit of the fenland. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
This was curious; for Wordsworth's men were of the rocks and fells, and not of the fenlands or flats. A Miscellany of Men
The Crane was in a spit of open woodland, with before him and on either side deep fenland with paths known only to its dwellers. The Path of the King
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