Each house of any size had a "pleasance," and the "herberie," or physic garden, which was the pioneer of the pie-plant bed, was connected with the monasteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic History of England] Reference

'Come, shall we take pleasance with a song or two?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

She remembered him juggling half a dozen oranges in Fergus's pleasance in Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

“Now we can enjoy ourselves aright: so up and let us take our pleasance in the garden.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

But Ranelagh house and gardens had a short history as the residence and pleasance of a nobleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

I bid ye welcome to my poor house, though I may say my garden is a pleasance for kings to command.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Garden of Iden] Reference

Absent, none taketh heed to him or his concerns; Present, he hath no part in life or pleasance aye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Our wives ne be not arrayed for to make no man pleasance, but only convenable array for to eschew folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

They passed the night in all pleasance and happiness, and on the morrow Hasan changed his clothes and donning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Here was a pleasance, where gallants and fair ladies disported themselves and watched the antics of wild animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference

A roughish path crossed the waste that was to become something Troy supposed Hilary would think of as a pleasance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

Am I the only one who suspects the young lady "next door" was trying to cover up the already-present odor so she could do her business in olfactory pleasance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has anyone seen this one before?] Reference

Who can say till he has tried his destiny -- and better are the nine and thirty chambers of safe pleasance than the lonely sightlessness of the outcast one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

John Splendid cooled a little, and went to the window, looking down with eyes of far surmise upon the pleasance and the town below, chewing his temper between his teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

"Oh, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

For he hathe every day, 50 fair damyseles, alle maydenes, that serven him everemore at his mete, and for to lye be hem o nyght, and for to do with hem that is to his pleasance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

How short was the life of the nights of our pleasance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

He grant us to his pleasance, and have you ever in his keeping!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth] Reference

"This world is no garden of pleasance, woman!" resumed Avice, harshly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference

Laughter resounded from every side of the pleasance mingled with cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Yea, indeed, thou excellest the world's cavaliers In pleasance and beauty and bounty and might.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

My life, indeed, are they, my hearing and my sight, Yea, and my very drink, my pleasance and my meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

"What manner of man was this Ferdinando de 'Medici who had converted his garden pleasance into a museum?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Fellows 'garden, known as "The Wilderness," an old-world pleasance, left as nearly as may be in a state of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. John's College, Cambridge] Reference

Thou wilt find me awaiting thee and we will all night long have delight and pleasance one of another, to our hearts 'content.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Then she went her ways into the pleasance, and paced the plashed alley up and down, letting the tears run down from her as they would.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

The pleasance was all abloom with flowers, for the month was May, but the ladies in their gauzy robes of delicate rainbow hues were lovelier far than the favourites of Flora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

The exploration on the Pyramid of Ancient Egypt and search for the lost secret of Beirut Palace will give you a sense of presenting on the scene and the pleasance on discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Tradition said that the old monks had built it, of bricks baked upon the mainland; and that it had been their favourite pleasance, because its walls shut out all view of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Vigoureux] Reference