Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleeds
Literary usage of Gleeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886)
"Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting, Whirled
them aloft ... gleeds. Hot, burning coals ; a Chaucerian word: — " And ..."
2. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"19. fire-gleeds, fire-flames, zzv. a. 27. Beowulf uttered, etc. The omitted
passage contains an account of certain of Beowulf's former achievements. b. ..."
3. Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster by John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler (1891)
"... When the wild horses affrighted sweep by with the speed of the whirlwind, 621.
gleeds. Hot, burning coals ; a Chaucerian word : — " And ..."
4. American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson by Horace Elisha Scudder (1894)
"... When the wild horses affrighted sweep by with the speed of the whirlwind, 621.
gleeds. Hot, burning coals ; a Chaucerian word: — " And ..."
5. The Lives of Those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole, Esquire, and Mr by Elias Ashmole, William Lilly, Charles Burman (1774)
"... meant by the range of gleeds, viz. great ... or gleeds,. and what every man
can get or purloin, he will take it for his own. ..."
6. The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World (Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson (1895)
"I. Thorns of sea-gleeds: ... gleeds = gold, the thorn-bushes or bramble-bushes
thereof, those adorned with gold, ..."
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