pleasance

• In the garden pleasance, that sloped to the lake, the roses and lilies planted there a generation ago still bloomed and flourished, and in the elm-shaded paddock, on the gate of which he was leaning, filly and foal could trace their pedigree to the sixth and seventh generation of deep-chested, clean-flanked ancestors The young man comprehended in part only, the reason of his mother's extreme bitterness towards Almeda Champney. —  Flamsted quarries
• I know not if it were by chance, or out of the befitting courtesy due to a mistress by whom he was so much honored, that she had scarcely made one step beyond the threshold of her chamber ere Leicester was by her side; and proposed to her, until the preparations for the chase had been completed, to view the pleasance, and the gardens which, it connected with the castle-yard Horses in the meanwhile neighed, and champed the bits with impatience in the base-court; hounds yelled in their couples, and yeomen, rangers, and prickers lamented the exhaling of the dew, which would prevent the scent from lying. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
• The slowest-growing shrubs in its pleasance were tough, seamed, branched and bowed with time. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• Heaven is a walled pleasance, like the Garden of Delight in the "Roman de la Rose Thick with companies Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes Swinburne has also essayed the minstrel ballad in various forms. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
• --So the Prince, albeit unseen, Heard, and his soul rebelled against the thing His sire had willed; and slowly wandering About the darkling pleasance--all amid A maze of intertangled walks, or hid In cedarn glooms, or where mysterious bowers Were heavy with the breath of drowsčd flowers-- Something, he knew not what, within his heart Rose like a faint-heard voice and said "Depart From hence and follow where thy dream shall lead." —  The Poems of William Watson

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