I wrote the 'Gypsy Dances' as a mere boy when I was studying with H.
So Léonard said to me: 'Why not write some Hungarian Gypsy dances--there must be wonderful material at hand in the music of the Tziganes of Hungary.
For is not Mr. Nachéz the composer of the "Gypsy Dances" for violin and piano, which have made him famous?
I may say that during these last thirty years there has been scarcely a violinist before the public who at one time or the other has not played these 'Gypsy Dances.
Annie dreaded the barking of the dogs, although she guessed that if they set up a noise, and a gypsy wife or man put out their heads in consequence, they would only desire the gypsy child to lie down and keep quiet.
Annie, too, stood still with a sudden start, for the gypsy woman, Mother Rachel, was standing directly in their path.
Annie wondered if the gypsy dogs would now allow her to approach without barking.
My dear," said Miss Jane, turning to her sister, "did you notice the extraordinary likeness that little gypsygirl bore to Annie Forest?
The gypsy stood still for a moment with a frown knitting her brows; then she slowly turned, and, creeping on all-fours through the underwood, climbed the hedge into the field beyond.
It was still very, very early in the morning, and the gypsy folk, tired from their march on the preceding day, slept.
Annie often felt that she quite loved these wild people, and Mother Rachel was the first gypsy she cordially shrank from and disliked.
He was gazing after a tiny gypsy maid who was skulking along the hedge, and who presently disappeared through a very small opening into the neighboring field.
The merry black eyes of this gypsy maiden fairly twinkled with suppressed fun when they met hers, and the bright head even nodded audaciously across the table to her.
She said she had found the child, in raggedgypsy garments, fainting in a field.
So she did, darkening Annie's brown skin to a real gypsy tone.
She had managed, with some tact, to obtain a certain amount of information from the delighted gypsy girl.
A short distance off are the wagons of a gypsy encampment, and the quick witted members of these roving tribes gain a livelihood by fortune telling.
At the close of the waltz the owl came and took the little gypsy away from Robert, and a moment later he heard the mellifluous voice of his companion of the banquet.
It was a Spanish gypsy with her lace mantilla and the inevitable red rose in her hair.
Oh, my mother, there are liars about," jeered the gypsy sceptically.
The mere fact that the speaker was in Lambert's company, let alone the offensively patronizing tone in which she spoke, was enough to rouse the gypsy girl's naturally hot temper.
One of the servants who went to the gypsycamp this afternoon told my maid, and my maid told me.
The gypsy sauntered toward it, clutching her shawl and gritting her white teeth together.
Miss Greeby did see, and the more readily, since she had heard Lambert express exactly the sentiments with which the old gypsy credited him.
No violence, Gentilla," said the young man, alarmed less the lawless gypsy nature should punish Miss Greeby privately.
But of the time when the adventurous gypsyassumed his Gentile name, the Romany could tell nothing, for obvious reasons.
But the Gentile lady declined the combat, and took no more notice of the jealous gypsy than was absolutely necessary.
Even if she did, an uneducated gypsy could not have forged the letter.
She believed, as we all did, that her husband was in Paris, and certainly never dreamed that he was masquerading as a gypsy three miles away.
It was a gypsy countenance, and there lurked in its loveliness that wild, untamed look which suggested unrestricted roamings and the spacious freedom of the road.
That's as true as my father," laughed the gypsy viciously.
Gypsy winch, a small winch, which may be operated by a crank, or by a ratchet and pawl through a lever working up and down.
She was uncertain if it were thegypsy or her wraith.
Etym: [Formerly rome, a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy origin; cf.
Etym: [Said to be of Gypsy origin; but probably from Scand.
Gypsy hat, a woman's or child's broad-brimmed hat, usually of straw or felt.
The male gypsymoth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male.
In my prayer at night I never forgot to mention Gypsy with the rest of the family--generally setting forth her claims first.
This show embraced among its attractions a number of trained Shetland ponies, and I determined that Gypsy should likewise have the benefit of a liberal education.
I beat a retreat from the room as soon as I could, and flew to the stable with a misty intention of mounting Gypsy and escaping from the place.
Once Gypsy seized the basket of clothespins with her teeth, and rising on her hind legs, pawing the air with her fore feet followed Kitty clear up to the scullery steps.
The idea of putting Gypsy through a systematic course of instruction was suggested to me by a visit to the circus which gave an annual performance in Rivermouth.
On one occasion Gypsy put in her head and lapped up six custard pies that had been placed by the casement to cool.
But Gypsy was the prime favorite, in spite of many rivals.
Once when Pepper Whitcomb's sister, in spite of our remonstrances, ventured to mount her, Gypsy gave a little indignant neigh, and tossed the gentle Emma heels over head in no time.
Nelly was the only girl that Gypsy ever took the slightest notice of.
Gypsy enjoyed the sport as keenly as any of us, even going so far, one day, as to trot down the beach into the sea where we were bathing.
Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby" Chapter Eleven--All About Gypsy This record of my life at Rivermouth would be strangely incomplete did I not devote an entire chapter to Gypsy.
But what were the sober pleasures of housekeeping and cooking beside the rough, deep-living exhilaration of gypsy life on the plains!
Each day they grew more accustomed to their gypsy life.
A gypsygave him to me," said Tod; "best dog that ever lived.
We always ride Gypsy bareback--climb up here on these boxes!
All the young Lees had ridden Gypsy but had not happened to discover this little trick.
THE RING CHARM I HAVE a little charm A gypsy gave to me, To keep me safe from harm, So ugly things can't see When I am all alone.
The gypsy put it on for me And said some words so strange I knew that they must be Some fairy charm to change The sad things into gay, And keep me safe and well.
When the gypsy had finished her song, Jack felt as if he was covered all over with cobwebs; but he could not move away, and he did not mind them now.
Jack glanced round, and saw that not all the parrots were free yet, the gypsy was still muttering her spell.
As he passed the place where that evil-minded gypsy had been changed, he found the ground strewed with little bits of her clothes.
There were no real cobwebs, of course; and yet he again felt as if they floated from the gypsy woman to him, like gossamer threads, and attracted him towards her.
But all this time Jack was very busy; for the moment the gypsy had tied up her eyes, the old parrot snatched the real handkerchief off his wife's shoulders, and tied it round her neck.
Several gypsy children were with her, and as the people came running together over the grass to see her goods, she sang a curious kind of song, which made them wish to buy them.
That gypsy woman who is coming with her cart," said the parrot, "is a fairy too, and very malicious.
Impatient as he was, Alan stopped, and allowed the gypsy to have her will.
Annaik had abruptly yielded to a strange gayety, and her swift laugh and gypsy smile made his heart glad.
At any rate, he was known to be a poacher as well as a woodlander of the old Breton kind--men who would never live save in the forest, any more than a gypsy would become a clerk and live in a street.
Then a woman, a gypsy vagrant, insisted disaster would ensue if they went over her tracks that night without first doing something to avert evil.
When the day was near she did not return to Kerival, but kept to the gypsy tent which she shared with Judik.
Two others were there, at whom the Cure looked askance: the rude woodlander, Judik Kerbastiou, and another forest estray, a gypsy woman with a shawl over her head.
So you see, Euan, that the half naked little gypsy of Poundridge camp comes not entirely shameless to her husband after all.
Is she, after all, but a camp-gypsy of the better class?
But wench or gypsy or what not, it was impossible that I should leave her here alone.
Warts upon the fingers of children I had myself known to vanish under the verbal charm of a gypsy woman, without any medicinal application whatever.
I'm too old to enjoy a gypsy drama when it's acted by myself; I'm tired of trudging through the world with my entire estate in my pocket.
Never did incubus Touch such a filthy sus 10 As this foul gypsy quean.
Never did incubus Touch such a filthy sus As this foul gypsy quean.
The gray green moss hung festooned from branch to branch; and the light sifted down a tempered rain of gold; and all the shiny evergreens shook gypsy castanets of joy to the riffling wind.
She wanted to clap her hands as the gay, twinkling cottonwoods were clapping theirs to the sunset; to dance and beat gypsy tambourines as the pines were throbbing and harping and clicking to the age-old melodies of Pan.
The cottonwoods were raining down showers of gold; and the pines were clicking their gypsy tambourines; and the golden torches of countless yellow autumn flowers lighted the triumphal procession of the year to its consummation.
There are still to be seen occasional groups of gypsy vagrants in the inland districts, but are rarely to be found in the cities.
The gypsy race of Russia, to whom these itinerants belong, are of the same Asiatic origin as those met with in southern Europe; no country has power to change their nature, no association can refine them.
Interspersed about the lanes and streets were many gay eating and drinking booths, cafes where gypsy dancers and singing girls appeared in the evening.
The Bohemian orgypsy girls were the most attractive,--poor creatures coming from no one knows where, wanderers from their birth, and with lives ever enveloped in mystery.
Bands of music perform in different parts of the extensive grounds, and gaudily-dressed gypsy girls sing and dance after their peculiar and fantastic style.
I couldn't help laughing, as serious as it was; for while we was on our knees the thought struck me that he ought to ask the Lord to bless that gypsy and restore his wife to health.
I found Ma and Pa out in the stable-yard, and he was fairly chattering over his wonderful bargain, and what a kind heart the gypsy had.
The gypsy said he had paid two hundred for him, but, as he was anxious to get to his sick wife in Atlanta, he would make it a hundred and fifty and be thankful that he'd made one man happy.
He told him he only had a hundred and twenty-five, and--well, the gypsy was a smooth article.
I understand there's a gypsy camp in the edge o' town, and they are the dickens on a swap.
The gypsy girl sat gracefully upon the officer's saddle, placing both hands upon the young man's shoulders, and gazing at him fixedly.
Whenever the gypsy girl placed her carpet within sight of Claude Frollo's cell and began to dance the priest turned from his books and, resting his head in his hands, gazed at her.
Later in the day, when darkness had fallen, as the gypsy and her goat were proceeding to their lodgings, Quasimodo seized hold of the girl and ran off with her.
In her grace and beauty thisgypsy girl seemed more than mortal.
The gypsy girl smilingly pressed the neck of the gourd to Quasimodo's jagged mouth.
As for Captain Phoebus, he recovered; but, as he was about to be engaged to a young lady of wealth, he thought it better to say nothing about the gypsy girl.
At this moment he saw the gypsy girl and her goat come through the crowd.
He longed to destroy the pillory; and had the lightning of his eye had power to blast, the gypsy girl would have been reduced to ashes long before she reached the platform.
Then the gypsy began to take up a collection in her tambourine, and presently the crowd dispersed.
He tore the gypsy girl from the arms of the astonished Quasimodo, and placed her across his saddle.
Many a gypsy had come and gone, leaving New York mildly indifferent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gypsy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
