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
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
No longer does the gleeman strike the harp and fill the hall with music.
From Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
In its village-moots lay our Parliament; in the gleeman of its village-feasts our Chaucer and our Shakspere; in the pirate-bark stealing from creek to creek our Drakes and our Nelsons.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
I like not to take the harp of a gleeman.
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
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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
Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with the gleemen went the glee maidens, who were the dancing and acrobatic girls of the day.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
