pleasure grounds in a sentence
Examples
- The house was set in pleasure grounds containing a lake and grotto, while the surrounding parkland was ornamented with a follies.
- The original Mulberry garden was a tree-planted pleasure ground and occupied the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens.
- It is probably with the decision to name the pleasure grounds a park that attention focussed on detailed investment and laying out.
- Yeonsangun also seized a thousand women from the provinces to serve as palace entertainers and appropriated the Sungkyunkwan as a personal pleasure ground.
- Wembley Park station was specially constructed to serve these pleasure grounds as a destination for excursion trips on the company's trains.
- Fifty years later William Pitt the Elder and Capability Brown improved the landscape, creating pleasure grounds of 200 acres incorporating two lakes.
- The "'Rungna People's Pleasure Ground "'is an amusement park located in Pyongyang, North Korea.
- He then quickly toured the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace, and Beihai park, once a pleasure ground for the emperors.
- Olmsted responded in March and urged Kessler " to be ambitious to be master in higher fields " than pleasure grounds and home gardens.
- Entertainers and courtiers were often dependents upon the wealthy or were associated with the often-perceived immoral pleasure grounds of urban entertainment districts.