Meanings of pleasure ground in English

The effect of this magnificent pleasure ground has been most salutary.

There was talk among the real estate visionaries of making it a pleasure ground.

Frank scarcely recognized the tiny pleasure ground, so covered was it with tents and bedding.

What a magnificent pleasure ground, vast, various, and seductive!

We have got nightingales in the pleasure ground, and in the wood down near the sea.

We came into the Stobarts' camp, pitched up on the hill behind the Kragujevatz pleasure ground.

The place that the crowd had occupied had that peculiarly dreary aspect characteristic of a deserted pleasure ground.

Not the biblical depiction of aggression and perversity, or an age-old gay slander, but a well-functioning bacchanalian pleasure ground.

The lawn, with its very modern appointments, became as some garden of the Golden House, a pleasure ground of an emperor.

Now it so happened that this spot was the pleasure ground of a company of fairies, who had a colony near by.

A Gainsborough or a Morland would seek his subjects in remote villages and a Watteau or a Stothard in the well kept pleasure ground.

Somewhere at the back, in some pleasure ground or casino or place of entertainment, an undaunted brass band was playing against the cosmic uproar.

A few yellow sand hills with clusters of pine trees and some scrubby undergrowth; a more desolate, arid, gloomy pleasure ground cannot be conceived.

So it was settled that with the quiet little hotel as headquarters the four would spend a week in exploring Cincinnati as a pleasure ground.

To the west lay a beautiful park and pleasure ground, while far away to the northward stretched the deep, dense forest, tall, dark and sombre.

Somehow I'd always regarded our place as a higher class establishment than 'The Tiger'-alongof the tea-gardens and pleasure ground and the class of company.