pleasance

Example Sentences

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And throughout this village were peace and well-accustomed pleasance.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Dame Fitzooth and the Squire followed later to the pleasance, and there one and all tried conclusions.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

The picturesque side of the home of the Sidneys, which faces this pleasance, was in shadow, and made a background to the gay scene, which accentuated the brilliant effect of the gay throng below it.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

It wasn't only that Pink Roses were beginning to fade: he was beginning to realise that pleasure demands its pleasance and Pink Roses an adequate rose-bed.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

The garden itself still bore traces of those long-bygone times when it had served as pleasance to the medi�val stronghold.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)