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

To rise would now become us," the gleeman straight replied, "She is a king's companion, and nobly born beside.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Trouvere and wandering minstrel, gleeman and eke gleemaiden, passed from place to place and from land to land repeating, altering, adapting the old stock of heroic or lovelorn ditties, or inventing new ones.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

Then did my lord call for more, and the maiden asked for my harp, but, being unwilling that the sunbeam of the gleeman should go from my hands, I loaned it not.

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

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 Madison, Lucy Foster