pleasance

Example Sentences

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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

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 he partook a little of the rich repast which had been prepared, and feigned so long a false pleasance, that he almost became pleased in reality.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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

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)