Gladly would I serve thee with my shield, durst I offer it before Kriemhild.
To Rudeger she spake: "Had I not heard that he were a paynim, gladly would I go whithersoever he listed and would take him to my husband.
Gladly would I be formally just, but I do not find it in me.
Luther begins the prefaces to his German works[1858] with the wish, which we have heard him express before: “Gladly would I see all my books unwritten or destroyed.
Satan’s own; gladly would I see myself and all my people quickly snatched from it!
But they said: "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short time to live.
Gladly would I now have welcomed any bodily suffering that could hide me from myself; but no illness came.
The knight of the white shield holdeth Perceval's rein and saith: "Gladly would I know who you are and wherefore you hate me, for you have wounded me right sore, and sturdy knight have I found you and of great strength.
As gladly would I," saith the King, "so that no evil came to him thereof, for he is the knight of the world that I most desire.
Damsel," saith the King, "Gladly would I have it so.
Gladly would I see the Sunday school where the doctrine of eternal fire is taught, changed to a happy dance upon the village green.
Gladly would I have the echoes of orthodox sermons--the owls and bats among the rafters, the snakes in crevices and corners--driven out by the glorious music of Wagner and Beethoven.
Yet if such a thing might be," said Halfden, "gladly would I hail you as brother in very truth.
Gladly would I give you their value, but I must confess to the daughter of my sheik that I have not in my possession so large a sum.
Did it devolve upon me alone to decide this question, gladly would I take the jewelry, good maiden.
Gladly would I do so, were it in my power," sighed he.
Gladly would I live where I could partake of his wisdom and learning.
Gladly would I look upon their faces unknown of them, but I durst not speak with the king.
Gladly would I give it thee if only the maid of the forest and the atheling's sister were the same," returned the girl.
Certes," saith she, "and I might have my way, gladly would I have less than I am to have.
Eliduc made answer he would go, gladly would he make her acquaintance.
The Woful Knight [Illustration] Gladly would I call to remembrance a lay whereof I have heard men speak; I will tell you its name and its story, and show you the city whence it sprang.
Gladly would he have crushed into a shapeless pulp the ruddy, chubby face of that young man.
Gladly would he have run away from meeting her again; but this he could not do, for Jack's sake and for his own.
Gladly would he have refused the awful charge of this young soul as yet unruined that so plainly exalted him to a place among the gods, but for a vision that he carried ever in his heart of a face sad and sweet and eloquent with trustful love.
Gladly would I go, for here nothing but sorrow has befallen me, were it not for one thing which to you may seem little, but to me, and perhaps to another, is all in all.
Gladly would I give a hundred golden shekels to him who brought me tidings that it had slipped and the woman with it, down to the arms of her father Beelzebub," broke in the Levite passionately.
Gladly would I have died to save you; should such choice arise, would you do so for me, I wonder?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gladly would" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
