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
I'll do your behest, and attend you in this pleasance to-night at twelve o' th' clock.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
He looked out of place in that quaint old pleasance on the desolate border side.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
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 N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
