The sound of it was pleasant to sit beside; this was our first genuinely rushing stream.
It was pleasant to sit and people watch, see the smiles and bear hugs.
Before long, people realized that it would be pleasant to sit under these trees and drink the beer.
It was always extremely pleasant to sit in the hot English sun and draw in a leisurely fashion.
It is never pleasant to sit next to someone who has body odour, who is snoring loudly or suffering from travel sickness.
No letters to answer, No bills to be burned, No work to be shirked, No cash to be earned, It is pleasant to sit on the beach With nothing at all to be done!
The fantasy of remaining indefinitely in Puebla used to come over me mostly in the Zócalo, the verdant central plaza, where it's pleasant to sit on a bench in the shade, and where there is always something to see.
According to its founder, Peter Shankman, some travelers are looking for a date and some for potential business partners, but others are simply looking for someone pleasant to sit with on a long flight.
In tribute to Nash — and to the waning beach days of summer — we offer the first stanza of his poem "Pretty Halcyon Days": How pleasant to sit on the beach, On the beach, on the sand, in the sun, With ocean galore within reach, And nothing at all to be done!
It was pleasant to sit in the cool of the evening with their feet on the great stone and watch the deer come down to drink and, just before darkness, see the herons flying upstream, their color matching the sky so closely they might have been eyes of wind.
General Wafic Samarai, who served as Saddam's chief of intelligence during the eight- year Iran-Iraq war (and who, after falling out of favor in the wake of the Persian Gulf War, walked for thirty hours through the rugged north of Iraq to escape the country), concurs: "It is pleasant to sit and talk to him.
