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Example sentences for "pleasance"

Lexicographically close words:
pleading; pleadingly; pleadings; pleads; pleas; pleasant; pleasanter; pleasantest; pleasantly; pleasantness
  1. There, you may add your own affairs to the list, Henrietta, for he is going to the Pleasance to meet some man of brick and mortar.

  2. Sprites of the blest, the pious Nigel said, Pour out your pleasance on my father's head!

  3. As for the tall gentleman, he gazed gravely over his beard, while Pleasance looked through the window, her face hot.

  4. Pleasance found this was so, and in the solitude of her own room hid her face and trembled.

  5. It was only when the preparations for the night were complete, when the maids had retired, and Pleasance was waiting, candlestick in hand, to say good night, that he spoke out.

  6. Pleasance was careless too, but with a difference.

  7. Pleasance in the purest innocence had reached this stage to-day; arriving at it by the road of that silence which is tolerable only when some progress has been made towards friendship, and which even then invites attack.

  8. The doctor was seated behind his table, Pleasance on a chair in the one small window recess.

  9. But Woolley concluded that Pleasance was with him--making a complaint in all probability; and this satisfied him.

  10. Pleasance would not discuss the question, but at the meal she sat silent and cold.

  11. Pleasance did not stay to think--to add up the chances.

  12. Pleasance had turned to the window, and was weeping softly.

  13. He did not turn to Pleasance or look at her.

  14. But dressing next morning he caught sight of Pleasance on the lawn.

  15. The doctor rubbed his hands and talked fast to preserve appearances; and Pleasance as well as her suitor seemed to regret their joint outbreak.

  16. And I," rejoined the Khalif, "wager and say that none is dead save Nuzhet el Fuad; and the stake shall be the Garden of Pleasance against thy palace and the Pavilion of Pictures.

  17. There was once a man of Khorassan and he had a son, whose improvement he ardently desired; but the young man sought to be alone and to remove himself from his father's eye, so he might give himself up to pleasance and delight.

  18. They abode in the most delightsome life and the most abounding pleasance till a third part of the night was past, when the master of the house arose and spreading them a bed, invited them to lie down.

  19. The day had been sultry, and the gentle night-breeze which sighed along the terrace of the Pleasance raised not a deeper breath than the fan in the hand of youthful beauty.

  20. Meet me in the Pleasance when the Queen has retired to her chamber.

  21. What is the pleasance of the world, except it be to see My lady's face, to drink of wine and ditties still to hear?

  22. Soft through the trees the mottled shadows dropped When Lilith in her pleasance sat.

  23. And now, seeking her pleasance once again, They came to their own land.

  24. Then she Turned from her pleasance and all silently Passed to the sea, across the yellow strand That, glimmering, ringed her shadowy land.

  25. We may look in vain nowadays in the Pleasance for the inns of that day.

  26. No wonder was; for why my wits all Were so overcome with pleasance and delight, Only through letting of mine eyes down fall, That suddenly my heart became her thrall, For ever of free will.

  27. Damascus is all gardens decked for the pleasance of the eyes, iii.

  28. The wine was sweet to us to drink in pleasance and repose, And in a garden of the garths of Paradise we lay, Whose streams beneath the myrtle's shade and cassia's welled amain And birds made carol jubilant from every blossomed spray.

  29. We had passed back through the kitchen garden with its gouty espaliers, and come into the pleasance before I forgave him.

  30. There was not room in Gamble's Pleasance for another human being.

  31. It was, undoubtedly, in the opinion of thirty-five thousand souls the finest goal seen on Gamble's Pleasance within the memory of man.

  32. The Romans are not nearly so dramatic as the Neapolitans or Venetians or even as the Tuscans; but once in the same pleasance I saw a controversy between school-boys which was carried on with an animation full of beauty and finish.

  33. We looked at it from an arbor of the lovely little garden which we were let into beyond the top of the rock, and which was the pleasance of some sort of hospital.

  34. And lastly, finding himself robbed of all former pleasance and delight, he breaketh his pipe in pieces, and casteth himself to the ground.

  35. In this Æglogue two Shepheards' Boys, taking occasion of the season, begin to make purpose of love, and other pleasance which to springtime is most agreeable.

  36. Such pleasance makes the grasshopper so poor, And lig so laid, when winter doth her strain.

  37. Jane has some very well-spoken of drawings even now on view in Grafton Street, and doubtless many more in Pleasance Court.

  38. They lived in Pleasance Court, a small square with a garden.

  39. All these and all that els the Comick Stage With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced, By which mans life in his likest image Was limned forth, are wholly now defaced .

  40. So when that all our English Wits lay dead, (Except the laurel that is ever green) Thou with thy Fruit our barrenness o'erspread, And set thy flowery pleasance to be seen.

  41. Now, as he uttered these words, they stood in the Pleasance by the mound; and on a sudden there was a low faint cry!

  42. But, at the last, as the gardener in the Pleasance leaned one day on his spade, he saw among the roses a small round hillock of earth, such as he had never seen before, and upon it something which shone.

  43. Now one day Sir Tristram came wandering thus into that pleasance and, the day being warm, he sat under the shade of an appletree beside a marble fountain of water; and the appletree above his head was all full of red and golden fruit.

  44. But by the time the young architect's creation at number 26 Buena Vista Pleasance had become their residence, that love was in a moribund condition.

  45. Affairs in the Buena Vista Pleasance house had progressed meantime.

  46. It was a little over three years since the Falkners had moved into the Buena Vista Pleasance house.

  47. And for because that Sir Tristram had such cheer and riches, and all other pleasance that he had, almost he had forsaken La Beale Isoud.

  48. And as for to say for to take my pleasance with paramours, that will I refuse in principal for dread of God.

  49. The old servant told him quietly as they crept back to Gamewell that this passage-way led from the hut in the pleasance to Sherwood; and that Geoffrey for the time was hiding with the outlaws in the forest.

  50. I'll do your behest, and attend you in this pleasance to-night at twelve o' th' clock.

  51. Absent, none taketh heed to him or his concerns; Present, he hath no part in life or pleasance aye.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amenity; bliss; common; compatibility; congeniality; cordiality; geniality; goodness; mellowness; paradise; park; pleasance; pleasantness; pleasantry; pleasure; rapport