pleasance

Example Sentences

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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

After hee had a while eaten, he fel to discourse with such pleasance, that all the table were greatly delighted therewith.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John

"What manner of man was this Ferdinando de' Medici who had converted his garden pleasance into a museum?"

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

The garden itself still bore traces of those long-bygone times when it had served as pleasance to the medi�val stronghold.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)