What is "pleasants"

Usage examples of "pleasants".

Not long after Pleasants bought his ticket, a southbound train chugged into the station.

Happily replete, he leaned back on his bench and joined in the byplay between Pleasants and the farm hands.

It was amazing how well Pleasants could preen in such a shabby uniform.

If Pleasants was similarly afflicted, a night spent with a bed companion who snored must have been grim.

He thought about going back to Raeford Liles's store to post that letter and the one to Henry Pleasants, but only for a moment.

He could not imagine Pleasants, whose disposition lived up to his name, producing that kind of fear in anyone.

If ever he'd met an all-around competent man, Henry Pleasants was the one.

And while Pleasants would have to endure her gimlet gaze for only one day, he himself might never hear the end of her complaints.

That suited his independent nature far better than sitting at a ledger with Henry Pleasants looking over his shoulder ever could.

In all the time he'd known Pleasants, he'd never heard him mention a woman's name.

As Pleasants had before, Caudell waved to the fields and the fine farmhouse.

But Pleasants, with his engineering knowledge, got his crops enough water in the dry times and not too much in the wet, and sent enough tobacco and corn to market to make himself the envy of his neighbors.

Caudell could not quite keep from remembering that Henry Pleasants was making a much better living than he was, and a better living than Raeford Liles, too.

But Pleasants was his friend, so he went on stoutly, "He could have gone back to Pennsylvania after the war was over, but he chose to stay down here and become part of our new country instead.

Caudell knew Lewis was giving him the option of using Henry Pleasants as his messenger if the Pennsylvanian had trouble getting the hang of the AK-47.