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)

Only the prospect of the Trent Valley and the Derbyshire foot-hills, visible beyond the pleasance, still pleased; and this view was vague and sad and distant.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

Experiment and officialdom have settled heavily on its sandy soil, and the wilder charm of the old pleasance has left it.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

It bounded one side of Heronsbourne Park but did not at any point of its length give access to that pleasance.

From Max Carrados by Bramah, Ernest

This fairy pleasance in the brake— This maze run wild of flower and vine— Our fathers planted for the sake Of eyes that longed for English gardens Amid the virgin wastes of pine.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various