pleasance
Example Sentences
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The pleasance, in the soft moonlight, looked ghostly enough: the statues and stone ornaments placed about the place seemed to be instinct with life and to wave signals of horror to Will's starting eyes.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
And biddeth eke for them that be at ease, That God them grant aye good perséverance, And send them might their ladies so to please That it to Love be worship and pleasance.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
I'll do your behest, and attend you in this pleasance to-night at twelve o' th' clock.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
Still more his soul revolted at this low animalism when that afternoon he for the first time beheld sweet Sancie playing at ball with her sisters in the pleasance of the palace of Aries.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
At seven o'clock the iron gate opened, and the children streamed into the pleasance, climbed the steps, and disappeared into the house.
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
