Simon Barnes rejoices in the re-creation of wild, teeming fenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference

I found this one on my fenland tour whilst out picking-off candidates for Classic Constructs, a new book for later on in the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Marks] Reference

Assembled from fenland and mountain dale, city, town, and freehold, the able few of all tribes and nations stood within its ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mini-interview: Bill Ward |] Reference

At that date, also, there would be lake and fenland stretching right inland from the estuary of the River Brue almost as far as South Cadbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

When I was mapping the non-marine molluscs of Britain for the 1st edition of the Michael Kerney Atlas, I was living on the edge of the fenland in East Anglia, England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederick Burnaby, Greeks, Armenians, old cemeteries and snails, of course] Reference

For the last purpose he purchased from the Crown a tract of fenland, situated between Revesby and Boston, being an outlying allotment of the original ancient parish of Bolingbroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Crowland, in the fenland, and there pined and died.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford] Reference

Leeks sprout from the curtains and the table top is fenland peat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Space and Culture] Reference

Almost the last remnant of the primeval fenland of East Anglia, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

Now there is a hard and bitter fact of life, very different from the story of the fenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference

Beyond it, and separated by the fenland of the Lea, lay the outlying little principality of Middlesex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference

On 9th-13th Febuary 2009, you will get the chance to vote for your new MYP for east cambridgeshire and fenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

The bustard is gone from Salisbury Plain; the fenland butterflies have disappeared with the drainage of the fens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

There are the tense moments typical of this author, and you will perhaps learn a lot about fenland natural history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference

As director, Francis moves the action from court to country estate to fenland Bedlam swiftly if not always smoothly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stage / News Headlines] Reference

Across Europe, the biggest declines from 1990 to 2000 had been for bogs and fenland, heathland and coastal habitats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The lucky peasants who tuned in to the wireless in their windswept fenland hovels were treated to such masterworks as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hooting Yard] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty Wesley] Reference

Champion farmer and butcher, Eric Bliss, who has died peacefully aged 88 at his fenland home, was a five-time winner of the Norwich Christmas Show and Sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDP24 News]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

Flinders was a fenland-bred man, and, passing from the low levels of eastern England to a life at sea in early youth, had had no experience of mountainous country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

Yet Eadmund our king, and even Ulfkytel, deemed that we were safe as ever behind our fenland barrier, fearing naught so long as no landing was made from across the Wash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulfric the Weapon Thane] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

Since the 1600s there has been a 99 per cent loss of fenland, but now Cranberry Rough at Great Hockham is being cleared to ensure that 80 hectares of vanishing fen are protected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference

A terrible cry wrenched himself free, and fled, wailing, back to the fenland, still in his grasp Beowulf held the limb.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Long, straight fenland roads stretched ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presumption of Death]

Yet this high cheese, by choice of fenland men.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Miscellany of Men] Reference

Encompass'd of fenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Britons in the fenland there. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference