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)

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

Beyond it is the Park Lane or Belgravia of Crawley—the residential and superior modern district of country houses, each in midst of its own little pleasance.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

But a mediæval knight went into his pleasance, to gather roses and hear the birds sing; or rode out hunting or hawking.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

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.