"Gleesome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rollicksome, frolicsome, rare old cock As ever did nothing was our dog Jock; A gleesome, fleasome, affectionate beast, As slow at a fight as swift at a feast; A wit among dogs, when his life 'gan fail, One couldn't but see the old wag in his tail, When his years grew long and his eyes grew dim, And his course of bark could not strengthen him. Never more ...
— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various
... with a smile, Sunny smile! Hear her gaysome, gleesome giggle as she rides around in style! How the merry laughter trips From her red and rosy lips, As she smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, While she rides along the dusty, ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells
... translated, the Esquimaux gave a general yell of assent and immediately retired, bounding and shouting and leaping as they went, looking, in their gleesome rotundity, like the infant progeny of ...
— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne
... (Marlowe), 'wieldsome', and 'unwieldsome' (Golding), 'unlightsome' (Milton), 'healthsome' (Homilies), 'ugsome' and 'ugglesome' (both in Foxe), 'laboursome' (Shakespeare), 'friendsome', 'longsome' (Bacon), 'quietsome', 'mirksome' (both in Spenser), 'toothsome' (Beaumont and Fletcher), 'gleesome', 'joysome' (both in Browne's Pastorals), 'gaysome' (Mirror for Magistrates), 'roomsome', 'bigsome', 'awesome', 'timersome', 'winsome', 'viewsome', 'dosome' (prosperous), 'flaysome' (fearful), 'auntersome' (adventurous), 'clamorsome' (all these still surviving in the North), 'playsome' ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
