gleeman

Example Sentences

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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

I, too, maiden, was the son of a gleeman who was the son of a gleeman, and song was my heritage even as it is thine.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

Bard, scald, minstrel, gleeman, with their heroic rhymes and long metrical romances, gave way in the evolution of song and harmony to the ballad-monger with his licence.

From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.

Thinkest, then, that Alfred will not give shelter and food to a gleeman and maiden?

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

In sooth, the tricks the gleeman gives are good also.”

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster