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- noun Plural form of
gyptian .
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Managing to escape, Lyra joins with the gyptians who head north to find out what is going on with all this business about kidnapped children and Dust.
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Managing to escape, Lyra joins with the gyptians who head north to find out what is going on with all this business about kidnapped children and Dust.
“The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1996) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Anyways, a great story with a lot of neat fantastical characters, as well as an elegant mix of science fiction and colleges and gyptians and lions, tigers, and (polar) bears oh my.
Books in 2008, #10 pabba 2008
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Lyra finds that Mrs. Coulter is not as warm and pleasant as she initially seemed, escapes from her, and is caught up in adventures with gyptians, armored bears, and witches on a quest to save Lord Asriel.
Archive 2007-10-01 Kristen 2007
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'We low gyptians never buy animals of that description; if we did we could never sell them, and most likely should be had up as horse-stealers.'
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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"We low gyptians never buy animals of that description; if we did we could never sell them, and most likely should be had up as horse-stealers."
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842
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"We low gyptians never buy animals of that description; if we did we could never sell them, and most likely should be had up as horse-stealers."
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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'Then why did you say just now, "It were a fine thing if it were but yours?"' said I. 'We gyptians always say so when we see anything that we admire.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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In the Amber spyglass how do the gyptians enter the mulefa world in the end? en Español
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Rofamund, wife of Alboinus king of the gyptians, i.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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