What is "gipsies"

Usage examples of "gipsies".

The ruler of the Bushman families is always a man, but among the gipsies a woman, and even a young girl often exercises supreme authority, but must be of the sacred blood.

Until lately, no leader ventured to follow the gipsies to their strongholds, for they were reputed invincible behind their stockades.

During an invasion of the gipsies, his castle bore the brunt of the war, and its gallant defence, indeed, broke their onward progress.

The shepherds, like all their related tribes, had been at feud with the gipsies for many generations.

The gipsies followed them to and from their pastures, cut off stragglers, destroyed or stole their sheep and cattle, and now and then overwhelmed a while tribe.

They lost many men by the javelins thrown by the gipsies, who rode up to the edge of the circle, cast their darts, and retreated.

Soon after noon on the third day the scouts reported that a large body of gipsies were moving in a direction which would cut off their course to the hills on the morrow.

It was considered that the danger was now past, and that the gipsies would not attack them on the hill.

His friends earnestly entreated him to enter the circle, and even sought to bring him within it by force, till he explained to them that he could not shoot if so surrounded, and promised if the gipsies charged to rush inside.

Felix fixed his eye on one of the gipsies who was ordering and marshalling the rest, a chief.

They had saved for him the ornaments of the gipsies who had fallen, golden earrings and noserings.

Instantly there was a whoop on either side, and two gipsies darted from the undergrowth towards him.

His hope was that the gipsies, being horsemen, and passing all their lives on their horses, might not know how to swim.

The gipsies would expect him to endeavour to regain his friends, and would watch to cut off his return.

Had he a short sword, or javelin, he would have faced the two gipsies who first sprang towards him.