Pleasance

Every moment of screen-time featuring Pleasance is a cinematic treat; he is entirely believable and equally entertaining.

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"I wonder what poor Willis will say, girls, when he hears that Pleasance is let?"

The Semi-Detached House 1859

While Pleasance is doing everything except parting the Red Sea, she seems to think she’s hosting an episode of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!”

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He’s never dealt with a recidivist burglar, seen him pull the wool over the bench’s eyes, seen him walk out grinning and known that tomorrow he’ll be doing old ladies’ houses in Pleasance Row again.

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"Yes, Pleasance is a stylish-looking concern," said Baron Moses, "though I only know it from the river.

The Semi-Detached House 1859

The window, however, was pleasant, though narrow, and commanded a delightful view of what was called the Pleasance;

Kenilworth 2004

There is a walk called the Pleasance, passing down through shrubs to the river, and then crossing the stream by a foot-bridge, and leading across the fields towards Dillsborough.

The American Senator 2004

This business being finished, Paula left the chamber and descended into the inclosure called the Pleasance, a spot grassed down like a lawn.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

The window, however, was pleasant, though narrow, and commanded a delightful view of what was called the Pleasance; a space of ground enclosed and decorated with arches, trophies, statues, fountains, and other architectural monuments, which formed one access from the Castle itself into the garden.

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

Kind of a precursor to the original Outer Limits tv episode, “The Man with the Power” starring Donald Pleasance as a college professor with enhanced mental abilities, although that show went in an entirely different direction than was followed here.

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