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  • Pleasanter than ever was our early ride through the pretty winding lanes dividing the vineyards and gardens skirting the town, and again, as we descended through deep banks among scattered woodlands to the open plains extending to the foot of the Limbara Mountains.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

  • "Pleasanter for you, I am afraid," murmured Hallward regretfully.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931

  • Sigsbee, a fellow Cape Pleasanter, after dinner that night at the

    The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

  • "Pleasanter with just the firelight," he said quietly.

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • Pleasanter to recall are the sober, industrious men and women who were denizens of the neighbourhood in the years gone by -- Mademoiselle Berthe and her little sisters, fabricating roses and violets out of muslin and wax in their attic apartment, Madame Lange, the _blanchisseuse_, ironing in front of an open window, Triquet, the _charcutier_, Roux, the

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • Pleasanter for me, anyhow, and I'd do my best to make it pleasant for you.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "Pleasanter for you, I am afraid," murmured Hallward regretfully.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890

  • Pleasanter far to close my eyes and call to view the unpretentious portals of the old caf, with her children --- for such those exiles seem to me --- dragging their rocking-chairs out, and sitting in their wonted group under the long, out-reaching eaves which shaded the banquette of the Rue Burgundy.

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • "Pleasanter for you, I am afraid," murmured Hallward, regretfully.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

  • "Pleasanter for you, I am afraid," murmured Hallward, regretfully.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

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