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.
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“It is a sapphire, and of great worth,” said the gleeman examining it.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
“Whither away, my merry man?” cried Wulfhere heartily, as the gleeman approached.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Now, child, let us hasten to Winchester there to find some mead hall; for where there is wassail, there is welcome for the gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
It lay on the seat of the gleeman, and it harmed none that I did try it.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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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.
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Ay! and I have heard his father, and his father’s father were gleemen; yet thou stayest here, and there is peace in the land.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
