What is "gippies"

Usage examples of "gippies".

Turks, half Gippies, who had seen Paris and had not the decency to die there.

To this day the Gippies of that regiment still alive do not understand why Seti should have stayed behind and risked his life to save a horse and bring him wounded back to his master.

It was like the patient fellah, when the Arabs, in pursuit of Wyndham and his Gippies, suddenly cut in between him and the house, to deliver himself over to the conqueror, with his hand upon his head in sign of obedience.

This was the reason that Wyndham bimbashi and his Gippies, and the Sheikh and his household, faced the fact, the morning after Hassan left, that there was scarce a goolah of water for a hundred burning throats.

At last he sat down on the ledge of the rude fountain, with his face towards the Gippies and the Arabs squatted on the ground, some playing mankalah, others sucking dry lime leaves, many smoking apathetically.

If Hassan got through to Kerbat his Gippies here would no doubt be relieved, and there would be no more blood on his head.

Also he could not wait for the relief party, for his Gippies and the friendlies were famishing, dying of thirst.

The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground.

The Gippies thought it a miraculous feat, and that he had done it in scorn of the Arab foe.