fenman
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fenmen
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His Welsh sounding name bears witness to his being a fenman of British ancestry.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
At the first bout they strove with steel, and were ill-matched at that, for the heavy strength of the fenman was futile against the lithe speed of the hunter.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
They are fine, sturdy, prosperous village communities, that mind their own business, and take their pleasure in religion and in song, like their forefathers the fenmen, Girvii, who sang their three-part catches with rude harmony.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
Skates are still called pattens by the fenmen of Cambridgeshire.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Paths there are that the fenmen know, winding through mere and peat bog and swamp, but no host can win through them; and perhaps those marches are safer borders than even the sea.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Then they tried to force some fenmen they caught to guide them to us at Othery.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Fierce as they were, these fenmen read in the Wesleys a will to match their own and beat it; a scorn, too, which cowed, but at the same time turned them sullen.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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