pleasance

Example Sentences

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It wasn't only that Pink Roses were beginning to fade: he was beginning to realise that pleasure demands its pleasance and Pink Roses an adequate rose-bed.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

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

The pleasance was all abloom with flowers, for the month was May, but the ladies in their gauzy robes of delicate rainbow hues were lovelier far than the favourites of Flora.

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

By 1752 Pitt had converted South Lodge, in the opinion of his friends or flatterers, into a delightful pleasance.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

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