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  • A further two years passed before the authorities agreed to exchange the two and a half acres in Moorfields for eleven acres in St Georges Fields, a marshy area of southeast London occupied by pleasure-gardens and a spa.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A further two years passed before the authorities agreed to exchange the two and a half acres in Moorfields for eleven acres in St Georges Fields, a marshy area of southeast London occupied by pleasure-gardens and a spa.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A further two years passed before the authorities agreed to exchange the two and a half acres in Moorfields for eleven acres in St Georges Fields, a marshy area of southeast London occupied by pleasure-gardens and a spa.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • I must observe that pleasure-gardens and picnic-parties are not to the taste of the average Russian.

    The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

  • Then for a time he spoke of that most cosmopolitan of cities, of its mosques and minarets and holographic pleasure-gardens, of its temples and palaces and baths, where all the many races of the world met and shared their lore.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • The north and south walls were mostly of glass-northwards lay a natural lake, artfully landscaped, and southwards were the pleasure-gardens.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Arjuna -- that foremost of men, sported in the pleasure-gardens of the lord of treasures (situated) in those woods on that romantic and excellent mountain.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • I never stay long in places for answering calls of nature, nor in pleasure-gardens attached to the house.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • If not, your Danish friend will carry you off to see these beautiful pleasure-gardens.

    Denmark M. Pearson Thomson

  • Some three or four miles from the town stands the hill of Tezcotzinco, where Nezahualcoyotl had his pleasure-gardens; and to this hill we made an excursion early one morning, with Mr. Bowring for our guide.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

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