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

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

From Northland Heroes by Holbrook, Florence

I am innocent both in word and deed of this thing of which the gleeman accuses me.”

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

List to the valiant gleeman; he gives you good advice; To your quarters, knights of Kriemhild!

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Because your scald or gleeman went With seven or nine-stringed instrument Upon his back,—must ours be bent?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett