Example Sentences

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She came in, a brilliant, handsome young creature, in rough, well- worn walking attire, and a gipsyish hat.

From Saturday's Child by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

We lighted a little fire of sticks and fir-cones, so as to be as gipsyish as we could, and we sat round the fire.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

She was a pretty little thing, very daintily formed, with tiny hands and feet, and big gipsyish brown eyes; and very delicate, very fragile—she looked as if anything might carry her off.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

But to-day Sevillian gentle-folk are inclined to pet the Gitanas, and it is quite 'good form' to use Romany phrases, and to appear a little gipsyish.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Archie Rivers, a merry, good-looking lad, with roguish blue eyes and a laughing face, sat, alternately watching the fair, downcast face of Celeste, and the piquant, gipsyish countenance of the other.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes