We especially enjoyed theamenity of the climate on our last holiday.
1834,George Bancroft, “Spaniards in the United States”, inHistory of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume I (Colonial History), Boston, Mass.: Charles Bowen; London: R. J. Kennett,→OCLC,page71:
The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full ofamenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May.
The Castle is an antique extent of ground, which now they call Marsfield, and would have ben a fitting area to have plac’d the Ducal palace in. The suburbs are large, the prospects sweete, with otheramenities, not omitting the flower gardens, in which all the inhabitants excel.
Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short onamenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.
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