Yet even here, after some Pleasureless days spent in vain endeavours to shake off these vulgar associations, I was to experience one of the sweetest surprises and delights of my life.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite Pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such.
"The Soul of Man"
Oscar Wilde
Madeleine stepped forward into a new and awful and wonderful world along a new and thorny and danger-beset path into a new and terrifying and Pleasureless life.
"Home Fires in France"
Dorothy Canfield