pleasance

Example Sentences

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He looked out of place in that quaint old pleasance on the desolate border side.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

"Nay, not if he knew you," replied Queen Eleanor; "therefore to your instant acquaintance, I have bidden him this afternoon to a game of ball in the pleasance of the castle."

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

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.

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

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 Howells, William Dean