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1538 J. Husee Let. 18 Oct. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O. SP 3/5) V. f. 75 What wyll ther be sayde whan than your lordship being.. callyd the plezentest wytyd in the world sholde so sodynly be chaynged.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 5 Such venome growes of pleasaunt colourd flower.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 17 He was..fair plessant faceit.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxiv. 218 It is no great disgrace though they suffer pleasant witted men a little to intermingle with zeale scorne.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 320 By my troth a pleasant spirited lady. View more context for this quotation

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie iii. 279 This various, yet pleasant relisht Doctrine.

1685 J. Dryden Daphnis Misc. Poems ii. 119 A pleasant sounding name's a pretty thing.

1705 W. Coward Abramideis i. 42 The pleasant Sounding Battery.

1779 J. Black Let. 5 July in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 64 He is a Very good and pleasant tempered lad.

1792 C. Smith Desmond III. xi. 154 The village of Meudon—where, among its pleasant-looking houses, they still point out the habitation of the celebrated Rabelais.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 153 Lady Glenmire..who had been very pretty in the days of her youth, and who was even yet very pleasant-looking.

1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xx. 187 Senator Dilworthy was..a pleasant spoken man, a popular man with the people.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 2 There is one pleasant-faced, cheery mannered Divine.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 1/3 It is only thoughtless persons who suppose..that..you have only got to be of medium looks, pleasant-tongued, cheerful-minded, willing and obliging.

1901 Daily News 12 Mar. 2/6 ‘Some of the negresses,’ said the lecturer, ‘are very pleasant-featured.’

1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xx. 259 Charles, the graceful, pleasant-mannered young man, to whom Flora Smith had taken a fancy.

1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 22 A foreign person By the looks of him. But talks good English. A pleasant-spoken gentleman.

1986 Atlantic (Nexis) July 32 The author of ‘To a Youthful Friend’..is at bottom, one feels, and primarily, a pleasant-minded woman.

2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 May w3 Your average Washingtonian is a fine-looking individual: modestly proportioned, pleasant-featured, alert, at least moderately graceful.