pleasance

Example Sentences

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Margaret had been used to walking, but it was all within parks and pleasances, and she was not at all used to being pushed about and jostled.

From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Lost, lost, the man who mindeth the minstrelsy; Since still, in sandy, glittering pleasances, Cold, stony fruits, gem-like but quite in- Edible, flatter and wholly starve him.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Now at length, this fully done, and the service of the goddess perfected, they came to the happy place, the green pleasances and blissful seats of the Fortunate Woodlands.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So he examined it and found it of the rarest of pleasances, full of all manner paintings in gold and lapis lazuli.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But I regret that, to- morrow being Friday, I shall not be able to open his shop, as 'tis meeting day when all the merchants, after congregational prayer, go forth to the gardens and pleasances.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir