From the earliest days, indeed, English critics have found this gipsy tendency in our most careful writing.
Go among them, and you will hear more words from the Shakespearean vocabulary, still alive and in common service, than anywhere else in the world, and more of the loose and brilliant syntax of that time, and more of its gipsy phrases.
The colour on her cheek deepened to a carnation, and she was mute; the large gipsy hat she wore serving to conceal both her face and the confusion which so deeply suffused it.
Gertrude kept close to the side of the latter, with her face hid beneath the shade of a gipsy hat.
But the experience of a collapsing tent at midnight had taught us many devices, and we made the cozy gipsy house as safe as possible, and then set about collecting a store of wood to last till bed-time.
Mrs. Byrne entered the gipsy tent, and Mrs. Cregan was left alone in the atmosphere of a bespangled past reduced to its lowest terms of imposture.
To which he hastily answered: "A swarthy wench of gipsy race.
The gipsy word for ale was quietly dropped in, and I ordered the right stuff as if nothing unusual had been said.
Would not the King allege Defaulted consummation of the marriage-pledge, And hie the Gipsy to her native hedge?
No doubt then, it was a present from Carmen, for a gipsy would set fire to a town to escape a day's imprisonment, and I was touched by this mark of remembrance.
A child opened the door, and disappeared when the gipsy said some words to it in the Romany tongue.
One evening when I had called on a friend of Carmen's the gipsy entered the room, followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
At first the gipsy kept silence, but presently she turned to me, and said softly, 'You are taking me to prison!
Then she took me to a house at the end of a little lane, and she and another gipsy washed and dressed my wounds.
Of a sudden the door opened violently, and a man entered, who denounced the gipsy in a manner far from polite.
My gipsy had a strange and wild beauty, a face which astonished at first, but which one could not forget.
Perhaps, if you adopted the gipsy law, I would like to become your wife.
Then the gipsy produced some cards, a magnet, a dried chameleon, and other things necessary for her art.
In all parts of Spain there are gipsies, but it is in the districts of the south that the stranger will see them best, for there would seem to be a special affinity between the Andalusian and the gipsy character.
Picture: A Gipsy house at Coria] It is when the Spaniard comes into personal relationships that his real native kindness appears.
At last they mind the gipsy loon In dungeon lay unfed; But ere the castle key was got The gipsy loon was dead.
They had a little home-made tent, and they built their fire and set up their gipsy housekeeping each night beside the road.
About once a year a gipsy caravan drives through our town, and stops in the street on its way.
Like other people in danger, the Squatter carried out his gipsy household goods, and moved up town with his family; all but the old French mother.
Lady Rens, Domini's mother, had been a great beauty of the gipsy type, the daughter of a Hungarian mother and of Sir Henry Arlworth, one of the most prominent and ardent English Catholics of his day.
For her gipsy blood was astir to-night, and the recklessness of the boy in her seemed to clamour with the storm.
I have been told by Spaniards that I am an exact reproduction of a Spanish gipsy as Carmen, which shows my studies were not in vain.
I studied the Spanish cigarette girls and those of gipsy blood as carefully as possible, and my idea of the role changed naturally.
At last I got off, and we rowed round to Fort Gênois, where my men had put up a capitalgipsy tent with sails, and there was my big board and Thomson's number 5 in great glory.
Perhaps it is to my shame that I liked John the better of the two; he had grit and dash, and that salt of the old Adam that pleases men with any savage inheritance of blood; and he was a wayfarer besides, and took my gipsy fancy.
The question at issue was--Had thegipsy robbed and forcibly confined Elizabeth Canning, or had Elizabeth Canning falsely accused the gipsy of these outrages?
A gipsy woman of very remarkable appearance was present.
The journey of the gipsy family is traced from day to day through distant parts of England, from the preceding December down to the 24th of January, which was the day of their arrival at Enfield Wash.
The real question lay between an old gipsy woman and a young servant-girl.
And most wonderful of all, he has not hesitated to preserve all the drastic and coarse effects of the gipsy band without ever leaning toward vulgarity.
But the proud Magyar will admit that Hungarian music is first and foremost gipsy music, Hungarian gipsy music.
Gustav Mahler was right in affirming that too muchgipsy has blurred the outlines of real Magyar music.
Some gipsy predicted that the lad would return to his native village rich, honoured, and in a glass house (coach).
The gipsy girl's great talent as a violinist was recognised by her patron, Joann von Lanyi, who had her educated in the Upper Hungarian city of Rozsnyo, where as a pupil of a German kapellmeister she received adequate musical instruction.
Otherwise the analogon is promising, the despised gipsy taking socially about the same position in Hungary as our own negro here.
Imbued with a plaintive and melancholy flavour this mode will always be recognised as the gipsy kind.
The next day a gipsy fortune-teller came to Peach Orchard, and told the fortunes of all the servants.
The gipsy predicted that you were going to have a fit of sickness, and I believe it has come," said Aubrey, seriously.
God be with all good folk," answered the gipsy in a hoarse voice.
And the gipsy fetched a blond little fellow and a girl of about five or six.
After the Malaga singer had finished, a gipsy youth with a chocolate complexion got up and executed a tango and a negro dance; he twisted himself in and out, thrust his abdomen forward and his arms back.
I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for?
Caballeros rode their steeds up and down, to show off their points, and gipsy 'copers' haggled and chaffered.
During a royal corrida, the gipsy pluckily tore out the mona, or bunch of ribbons in the bull's neck, and advanced towards the Queen.
Importunate gipsy dames stood at the doors of their tents, inviting the visitors to enter, and to taste their curious liquors, or to have their fortunes told.
There are other cafes in Sierpes where national and gipsy dancing may be witnessed, but perhaps the most characteristic performances are those of the Novedades.
The entertainment usually opens with a representation of gipsy or flamenco dancing, which is a strange exercise and difficult to describe.
You let the old gipsy alone for knowing a prince when she sees one,' she would say, nodding at him with encouragement.
The other figure was an old brown gipsy woman in a red cloak and a striped petticoat, with a head which, although it wouldn't take off, was always nodding and grinning mysteriously from morning to night.
He watched the slow progress of Gipsy as she walked toward the house, taking the lawn, evidently because her rider feared to give warning of her expedition by the sound of hoofs on the beaten track.
Go to the stables," she said, "and order my groom to bring Gipsy round; he need not trouble himself to attend me.
Allons, Bessie; here is a nice level place for a gallop; wake Gipsy up.
He has since found his way to a lonely missionary station in Peru; but he has often told me that he was never happier than when he played the part of pious gipsy on the village greens of England.
By virtue of the peasant or gipsy blood in me I kept my earth-hunger through twenty years of London life, but I count my case unique.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gipsy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
