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glee

a type of song originating in 18th-century England, sung by three or more unaccompanied voices
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"Yes; I do not know how it has happened." The glee began.
"But I see you have not escaped without a scratch," continued the Sheriff, becoming talkative through pure glee. "Here, one of you men!
But before the Doctor could say any more, the pirates began to sail the ship nearer, laughing with glee, and saying one to another, "Who shall be the first to catch the pig?"
I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament.
That frolicked with such glee: To men whose lives were held in gyves,
For I should pass, but all the world would be Full of desire and young delight and glee, And why should men be sad through loss of me?
We roared with laughter, holding on to one another or rolling on the ground in our glee.
The little boys whooped in glee. As she started up the street they fell in behind and marched uproariously.