Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyppies
Literary usage of Gyppies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à by Charles à Court Repington (1920)
"... and after thirty- six hours in Paris flew back to suppress the gyppies, who
are more or less in mild revolt, and there are rumours of massacres at ..."
2. The Downfall of the Dervishes: Being a Sketch of the Final Sudan Campaign of by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett (1898)
"Captain Ricardo of the 17th Lancers, who was attached to the Egyptian cavalry,
told me that he never wished to command better troops than the "gyppies" ..."
3. Egypt in Transition by Sidney Low (1914)
"The 'gyppies made a fine show, for they marched past like a moving wall, every
bayonet in its right alignment. For physique you would find some'of the ..."
4. Egypt and the English, Showing British Public Opinion in Egypt Upon the by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1908)
"... is essentially gyppies. I refer to the Sporting Club. The ace is neither
luxurious noi crowded during the seasc the right kind of men : decent Society ..."
5. From Kabul to Kumassi: Twenty-four Years of Soldiering and Sport by James Willcocks (1904)
"As Governor of the Frontier Province and on the desert plains of "Toski," Wodehouse
had proved his gyppies to be good men and true when led by soldiers like ..."
6. The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919 by S. J. Wilson (1920)
"Our men were thoroughly impressed with the wonderful rapidity with which these "
gyppies " accomplished their task. They were divided up into gangs, ..."
7. The Desert Campaigns by William Thomas Massey (1918)
"... for they would talk and try to smoke when silence was essential, but one must
not be too hard on the gyppies, for they did a very hard job quite well, ..."
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