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In this garden lived many birds of surpassing beauty and most rapturous song, and among them was one that they called Joyous, for that he did ever carol forth so joyously, it mattered not what the day soever might be.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872
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How King Arthur at the request of Sir Gawaine concluded to make war against Sir Launcelot, and laid siege to his castle called Joyous Gard
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Gawaine concluded to make war against Sir Launcelot, and laid siege to his castle called Joyous Gard
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Day after day they went out hunting or fishing; night after night they went to balls or to the opera; they sang, and danced, and ate sugar-plums, and were the gayest of the gay, and all their subjects followed their example so that the kingdom was called the Joyous
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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And in the meanwhile came Sir Percivale de Galis and Sir Ector de Maris under that castle that was called the Joyous Isle.
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Queen to the castle known as the Joyous Garde; and there he held her, in safety and honour, in spite of all that King Mark could do.
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay
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But it was not alone that she sped northward to that great valley in the mountains, which the Poor Boy had called Joyous Guard, after Launcelot's domain.
If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Day after day they went out hunting or fishing; night after night they went to balls or to the opera; they sang, and danced, and ate sugar-plums, and were the gayest of the gay, and all their subjects followed their example so that the kingdom was called the Joyous Land.
Red Fairy Book 1890
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Arrived at his destination, he inveigled Rinaldo into an enchanted bark, which conveyed him, without any visible pilot, to an island where stood an edifice called Joyous Castle.
Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Arrived at his destination, he inveigled Rinaldo into an enchanted bark, which conveyed him, without any visible pilot, to an island where stood an edifice called Joyous Castle.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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