pleasance

Example Sentences

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"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)

"Could we but find that underground path whereby cousin Geoffrey came and went from the pleasance, old friend," said he, "why—we might play the Yellow Lady to purpose!"

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Still he partook a little of the rich repast which had been prepared, and feigned so long a false pleasance, that he almost became pleased in reality.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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 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)