gleesome
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Are not marriage and death twined hand in hand, to render that home desolate which once resounded with the laugh of many gleesome hearts, with the glad tones of youthful revelling and joy?
From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar
There is that exhilarating, yet balmy nourishment in the atmosphere which lifts the weary spirit from its damp and earthly coil, and makes it glad, and light, and gleesome.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
Their parents at first, however, only laughed at what161 they considered the gleesome antics of these embryo personators in opera.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
Only no one could have heard her childish, gleesome and silvery laugh without laughing with her.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
Two big birds with stumpy legs and top-heavy beaks, solemnly prancing and manœuvring before one another with an accompaniment of valiant gobbles and a punctuation of occasional pecks—a gleesome spectacle.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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