pleasance
Example Sentences
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The summer, which you left for dead by mountain or sea-shore, stirs with lingering consciousness in the bland air of the great pleasance.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
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 G. G. Coulton
"Could we but find that underground path whereby cousin Geoffrey came and went from the pleasance, old friend," said he, "why—we might play the Yellow Lady to purpose!"
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
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 Emma Marshall
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 Ernest Bramah
