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Surely, said Birdalone, it were a little payment to set against your saving of my life and my soul; and had I to go barefoot over red gleeds I would do it.
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The grim of the terrors, with gleeds all beswealed.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Discouraging thoughts are like unto cold weather; they benumb the senses and make us go ungainly about our business; but the sweet and warm gleeds [Footnote: Glowing coals.] of promise are like the comfortable beams of the sun, which enliveneth and refresheth.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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With gleeds to ground wasted; so therefore the war-king,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
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As though flames were burning beneath it, and red gleeds the daisies were:
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
Evangeline 1847
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Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
The Children's Own Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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Then as the wind seized the gleeds and the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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