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A dreamer wrapped in pleasant thoughts - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Our game in pleasant fashion ends - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

More pleasant than honey - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

By the pleasant pranks they played us - Thomas Hardy "Budmouth Dears"

The ghosts of pleasant hours in bygone years - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

At ease beneath some pleasant weed - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

Dwelt among the pleasant stars - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

Launched on your pleasant dreamless tide - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Pleasant foe to reason - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"

A pleasant salmon in the unchainable sea - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

A pleasant draught of bitter hyssop - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Pleasant songs in idle years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

When pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"


A universe out of pleasantries - Rae Armantrout "Vehicles"


Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

What can mean these unpleasant surmises? - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]


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