Example Sentences

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Where are the may-poles, with their circles of rosy-cheeked children dancing gleesomely around them?

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

Knight came back in thirty minutes, chuckling gleesomely.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen

"You're the funniest fellow in the world, Mort!" he chuckled gleesomely.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen

Six minutes later the Mistress was gleesomely accepting the first-prize blue ribbon, for "best puppy," from Judge Symonds' own gnarled hand.

From Bruce by Terhune, Albert Payson