pleasance

Example Sentences

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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 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)

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)

Which said, she took the path that led about, And hid the upland pleasance from her view.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

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