pleasanter

He was a man who never shirked what he believed to be his duty; but duty had sometimes presented itself to him in pleasanter guise than this summons to Naomi Clark's death-bed.

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

But once they lived farther south in pleasanter lands.

Viking Tales 1902

The oftener that women are to be seen “out,” the more will such improved feelings prevail as to hunting, and the pleasanter will be the field to men who are not horsey, but who may nevertheless be good horsemen.

Hunting Sketches 2004

The master had taken his family for a visit in the neighborhood and the mulatto child sat on the veranda and recalled pleasanter days.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Work Projects Administration

Much the same kind of thing takes place in other cases, when a person is engaged in two different Workings at the same time: that is, the pleasanter of the two keeps pushing out the other, and, if the disparity in pleasantness be great, then more and more till a man even ceases altogether to work at the other.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

He tries to pacify her by protesting that he had not quite liked the plan proposed himself, but had indorsed it only to gain time; whereupon she suggests a way out of the dilemma pleasanter to herself, by advising the Argonauts to inveigle her brother, who leads the pursuers, into their power and assassinate him; which they promptly proceed to do, while she stands by with averted eyes.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

The oftener that women are to be seen "out," the more will such improved feelings prevail as to hunting, and the pleasanter will be the field to men who are not horsey, but who may nevertheless be good horsemen.

Hunting Sketches Anthony Trollope 1848

'Tis very strange, though, that the older I grow, the pleasanter are the pictures that are reflected on my mind.

Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

"I'd like 'em to have something kind o 'pleasanter 'bout me to remember than jest always having to keep the coffee on the back of the stove for me," thought Mike.

The Rowdy 1892

In smaller print the laminated sign said that from 12 February on the second Saturday of every month there would be gardening days with refreshments provided: "Come and help make it a pleasanter place for all the community to enjoy."

Running London: Leg 15 - Golders Green to Ladbroke Grove 2011