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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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

"I have not; but I have heard some fenmen talking."

From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Skates are still called pattens by the fenmen of Cambridgeshire.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

"Our fenmen can wear a mail-shirt as easily as a frock, and handle a twybill as neatly as a breviary."

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles

Why did he not push on at once against the one rebellion left alight,—that of Hereward and his fenmen?

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles