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

Once, wandering, a gleeman came Two years agone and sang a lay in Mark's High hall; but, see!

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various

No longer does the gleeman strike the harp and fill the hall with music.

From Northland Heroes by Holbrook, Florence

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

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.