gleesome
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Who would be pent up within four stone walls on such a day, when he could forth with the blue above and the green below, and a thousand gleesome things around?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
"Now, surely, forester," quoth Aliena, "when thou madest this sonnet, thou wert in some amorous quandary, neither too fearful as despairing of thy mistress' favors, nor too gleesome as hoping in thy fortunes."
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
“When winter muffles up his cloak, And binds the mire like a rock, Then to the loch the Curlers flock Wi’ gleesome speed.”
From The Canadian Curler's Manual by
Ye glaiket, gleesome, dainty damies, Wha, by Castalia’s wimplin’ streamies, Lowp, sing, and lave your pretty limbies, Ye ken, ye ken, That strang necessity supreme is ‘Mang sons o’ men.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
My gleesome, gentle Harriet! with all the sweetness and affection of shepherd love.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number by Various
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