pleasure-garden

But instead of murdering botanical names, I will rather conduct you to the POLICY, or pleasure-garden, which the taste of Joshua or his father had extended on the banks betwixt the house and river.

Redgauntlet 2008

Matilda wished to enjoy it, and wander in the pleasure-garden which margined the river.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

Sometimes, perhaps, the festivity of that period revives in our memory; but how dingy the pleasure-garden has grown, how tattered the garlands look, how scant and old the company, and what a number of the lights have gone out since that day!

The History of Pendennis 2006

In the olden time there was a king, who had behind his palace a beautiful pleasure-garden in which there was a tree that bore golden apples.

Household Tales 2003

Here the Sherif Ghaleb had a small pleasure-garden and a country-house; and he kept here a herd of buffaloes, brought from Egypt; but they did not prosper.

Travels in Arabia 2003

The ladies dress elegantly, on these days, and it is the fashion to gather round the band, which is probably the best of our pleasure-garden bands, and plays the newest pieces.

The Idiot 2002

But Westerners, I have come to realize, see the harem as a peaceful pleasure-garden where omnipotent men reign supreme over obedient women.

Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

And once, a great hare loped lazily down the road, pausing in surprise at the sight of her, and standing up on his haunches to take a better look, for all the world like a white stone garden statue of the kind the Sire had in his pleasure-garden.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

Freed from their pleasure-garden surroundings they would become beautifully wild and romantic and tropically un-English; but as it is, with their notice boards and bridges, they are disappointing, except of course to children.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Besides the Chaussée and its surroundings, there is another large park or pleasure-garden in the centre of the city, called the Cismegiu, which contains ornamental waters, flower-beds, and fine alleys of trees, and is a favourite resort of the humbler classes.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson