gipsies

This tree has been used by what you call gipsies -- and shows that fire has been made in it.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

We must submit, indeed, answered the gentleman; and if he had died I could have borne the loss with patience; but alas! sir, he was stolen away from my door by some wicked travelling people whom they call gipsies; nor could I ever, with the most diligent search, recover him.

Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730

Some circumstances of local situation gave the author, in his youth, an opportunity of seeing a little, and hearing a great deal, about that degraded class who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century, and vagrants of European descent.

Introduction to Guy Mannering (1829) 1917

In the summer, the bailiff would have been the first to call the gipsies vagabonds and roost-robbers; now ... they had women with them too.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

We gipsies, that is all we ask—love and the free air of heaven!

VIII. The Convenience of Windows Overlooking the River. Book VII 1917

It was believed by many, at the time, that Mr. Mompesson himself was privy to the whole matter, and permitted and encouraged these tricks in his house for the sake of notoriety; but it seems more probable that the gipsies were the real delinquents, and that Mr. Mompesson was as much alarmed and bewildered as his credulous neighbours, whose excited imaginations conjured up no small portion of these stories,

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

It was believed by many, at the time, that Mr. Mompesson himself was privy to the whole matter, and permitted and encouraged these tricks in his house for the sake of notoriety; but it seems more probable that the gipsies were the real delinquents, and that Mr. Mompesson was as much alarmed and bewildered as his credulous neighhours, whose excited imaginations conjured up no small portion of these stories,

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

Some circumstances of local situation gave the Author in his youth an opportunity of seeing a little, and hearing a great deal, about that degraded class who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century and vagrants of European descent.

Guy Mannering 1815

Some circumstances of local situation gave the Author in his youth an opportunity of seeing a little, and hearing a great deal, about that degraded class who are called gipsies; who are in most cases

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Some circumstances of local situation gave the Author in his youth an opportunity of seeing a little, and hearing a great deal, about that degraded class who are called gipsies; who are in most cases

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801