pleasance

Example Sentences

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The picturesque side of the home of the Sidneys, which faces this pleasance, was in shadow, and made a background to the gay scene, which accentuated the brilliant effect of the gay throng below it.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

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

When they had reached the little hut near by the pleasance, Robin bade her stay.

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

Once more a Cecil plays the host, And bows in Royal presence; What wonder if Queen Bess's ghost, Looked down upon the pleasance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various

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)