Sentence examples for a pleasure ground from inspiring English sources

Crete became a pleasure ground.

The Balearic island of Ibiza, long a pleasure ground for international tourism, is named for him.

Only he would pick a pleasure ground and then cut it with a chill.

SoHo has so thoroughly become a pleasure ground for the global 1 percent that it's easy to forget, architecture aside, that it was once a manufacturing district.

By Persis Greely Anderson The New Yorker, May 2 , 1931P. 68 Crete became a pleasure ground View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Joan Acocella.

He believed in "setting aside the area as a pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and warned that there were those who would come and "make merchandise of these beautiful specimens".

If it was a traumatic reaction, Mr. Boscarino, who is as even-keeled as a flat-bottomed boat on a pleasure-grounds pond, has shelved it somewhere between the specimen bugs and the Pooh Bear bookends.

The area declined as a pleasure-ground as the market grew and further buildings were added: the Floral Hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market.

For all its particularity, Giardini could have been any pleasure ground in the idle season.

But our particular destination was in an uneven and apparently unremarkable patch of pastureland, part of what is known as the Park, formerly an abbey possession but in the Berkeley days a picturesque pleasure ground.

We must recognize the importance of the front yard as a visible symbol of self, the backyard's role as a personal pleasure ground, and the conflict that may occur when the natural landscape is relatively inhospitable to domestic behaviors.