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  • "Cap'n Joe Weedles, formerly o 'the brig' Gladsome 'an' now a slave o 'Zog at the bottom o' the sea."

    The Sea Fairies 1887

  • Gladsome teh drinkees and noms on LOL is non-calorific!

    Even kittehs must face - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Gladsome Light: Fós hilaron - hymn from Vespers celebrating Christ, Light for everyone and source of life fot the whole world.

    More Byzantine Catholic Chants bls 2008

  • Gladsome Light: Fós hilaron - hymn from Vespers celebrating Christ, Light for everyone and source of life fot the whole world.

    Archive 2008-02-01 bls 2008

  • Gladsome and sweet as nectar are they, indeed, they fill my heart with great pleasure, O puissant one.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • THOMAS CHURCHYARD from _A Handfull of Gladsome Verses_ (1592).

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

  • Now Ackronnion pondered in this wise: that if he could obtain the tears of the Gladsome Beast by means of his art, withholding him from violence by the spell of music, and if a friend should slay the

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • The contented chuckles of the Gladsome Beast suddenly ceased in his lair.

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Gladsome Beast before his weeping ceased -- for an end must come to weeping even with men -- that so he might get safe away with the tears, and drink them before the Queen of the Woods and move her to tears of joy.

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Then the Old Man Who Looks After Fairyland went back to his windy house, muttering angrily as he passed his cabbages, for he did not love the ways of the Gladsome Beast; and the two friends parted on their separate ways.

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

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