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
His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleeman came forward.
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
With covetous eyes she looked upon the harp of Edwy the gleeman, and that hath she taken with her.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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
Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
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
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
The Celts all practised what is termed the Druidic cult, their priests being poets, bards, or gleemen, who could compose or recite in verse, ritual, laws, and heroic ballads.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
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