plaisance

• And then they released him to do his plaisance, and he returned to his home in the tree hard by the arbor and there he sung unto those children more sweetly than ever before; for his heart was full of gratitude to our little Mistress Merciless and Master Sweetheart Now, of the dolls that she had in goodly number, that one which was named Beautiful did our little Mistress Merciless love best. —  The Holy Cross and Other Tales
• Across a fair green plaisance, all seemly beset with flower and shrub, the wide doors of a church stood open. —  New Faces
• To the whole picture a sort of magic quality was added by a speck of high-light which rested upon the face of the old sun-dial I thought that here was a fit illustration for a fairy tale; then I remembered the Colonel's account of how he had awakened in the act of entering this romantic plaisance, and I was touched anew by an unrestfulness, by a sense of the uncanny I observed a book lying upon the dressing table, and concluding that it was one which Harley had brought with him, I took it up, glancing at the title. —  Bat Wing
• And then they released him to do his plaisance, and he returned to his home in the tree hard by the arbor and there he sung unto those children more sweetly than ever before; for his heart was full of gratitude to our little Mistress Merciless and Master Sweetheart. —  The Holy Cross and Other Tales
• I thought that here was a fit illustration for a fairy tale; then I remembered the Colonel's account of how he had awakened in the act of entering this romantic plaisance, and I was touched anew by an unrestfulness, by a sense of the uncanny. —  Bat Wing

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