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  • Mrs. Jewkes and I were looking yesterday through the iron gate that fronts the elms; and a gipsy-like body made up to us, and said; If, madam, you will give me some broken victuals, I will tell you both your fortunes.

    Pamela 2006

  • At the base of Church Hill are huts of the Mubiri or blacksmiths, who gipsy-like wander away when a tax is feared; they are not despised, but they are considered a separate caste.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • In striking contrast to her gipsy-like husband she was a typical

    Virgin Soil 2003

  • The gipsy-like student looked about him and addressed the onlookers in an indistinct bleating voice. —

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • He was accompanied by a man of about forty in a peasant coat, who had an extraordinarily lively gipsy-like face, coal - black piercing eyes, with which he scanned

    Virgin Soil 2003

  • She saw only a slim, beautifully dressed woman, whose age might have been somewhere between thirty and forty, and who still laid claim to a gipsy-like beauty.

    The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

  • She was so gipsy-like to look at: brown-skinned, large dark eyes, exceeding bright, with a sort of sparkling, wild look about her.

    Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

  • H.re Sir H. Risley considers Beria to be 'the generic name of a number of vagrant, gipsy-like groups'; and a full description of them has been given by Babu Rajendra Lal Mitra, who considers them to resemble the gipsies of Europe.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • A gipsy-like tribe called the Bebajias are rather numerous in this district.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • "He's as smart as his master," said the carrier, laughing, while the gipsy-like man turned and glanced keenly at the van.

    Dick Lionheart Mary Rowles Jarvis

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