gleeman
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If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o.
From Time Magazine Archive
During a momentary lull the old gleeman struck his harp, and together he and his grandchild lifted up their voices in song.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Strong is the Knight of Trony, and oft in battle tried, But stronger yet the warrior who sits him there beside, Folker, the valiant gleeman; he is a dangerous man.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
So, to Egwina’s relief, the harp was interred with the gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
IX When this was seen by th' others, they took at once to flight; That same redoubted gleeman all curs'd with all their might.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last week's concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Hrothgar's scops and gleemen sing of the past, quoting liberally from Beowulf, all those random bloody deeds are transformed into acts of loyalty, bravery, selflessness, steps to progress, and signs, even, of religious purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then sang the English gleemen of the deeds of Eadmund the Atheling, and all were well pleased.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
