gipsey

Delvile, it seems, about a fortnight before the present time, in one of his morning walks, had observed a gipsey sitting by the side of the high road, who seemed extremely ill, and who had a very beautiful child tied to her back.

Cecilia 2008

The gipsey was best off, for she went to her old business, and began begging.

Cecilia 2008

Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot.

Introduction, I.1 2002

Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot.

The Last Man 2003

Amidst the movement of fauna a gipsey prepares to sleep.

Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

"I acknowledge, said the officer, that I have a little deceived you, my story was fiction founded on truth -- the novel style: but for the deceptive part, you may thank your little gipsey of a nymph there, pointing to Melissa; she planned and I executed."

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

The next, _Rosa, _ was a wild, handsome little gipsey, with eyes as black as jet, and as bright as diamonds, a brilliant color shining through her sunburnt cheek, and with straight black hair, no better cared for than her sister Tiney's.

Lewie Or, The Bended Twig

France he contents himself with the simple truth -- he contrasts the dark shadows of Meg Merrilies, or of Edie Ochiltree, with the holy and pure lights that redeem and sanctify them -- he gives us the poor, even to the gipsey and the beggar, as they really are -- contented, if our interest is excited, and knowing that nature is sufficient to excite it.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 Various

Of course, Philippa would not turn away from her beloved work; but the other woman server came; she turned out to be Philippa's daughter but was a tall strong girl, black-haired and gipsey-like of face and curiously solemn of manner.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

Of course, Philippa would not turn away from her beloved work; but the other woman carver came; she turned out to be Philippa's daughter, but was a tall strong girl, black-haired and gipsey-like of face and curiously solemn of manner.

News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris 1865