True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering. |
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True gypsies, or Romanies, were perceived and defined as a separate nomadic people possessing their own language, customs, and beliefs. |
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They were uncentered roamers, like gypsies moving over a space incomprehensibly large to a European eye. |
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My father's family are descended from the Wends, a nomadic people from the Slav lands who were gypsies, musicians and physicians. |
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The gypsies in South Bucks were both owners and occupiers of the land, albeit occupying it in breach of planning legislation. |
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We thought we were raggle-taggle gypsies one and all, despite the fact that we were actually middle-class A-level students. |
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Used by poacher and gypsies the Dandie Dinmont Terrier was particularly good at tracking otters. |
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Germans believe that they got this tradition from the gypsies who came from the Indian sub-continent in the days of yore. |
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Well these visions unfold in front of me like a play put on by a traveling band of vagabond gypsies. |
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In 1911-14 he led a nomadic life, sometimes living in a caravan and camping with gypsies. |
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I watched a rowdy group of gypsies enter the open, unguarded gates of Damar. |
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He was quite hungry anyway, so he followed the woman outside into the centre of the ring of caravans where the gypsies were all seated. |
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Many of the gypsies ignored her, sitting outside their tents, preparing a meal or darning a sock or mending a hem. |
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The long skirt billowed out from the cool breeze that wafted through the trees and down the path the gypsies were traveling upon. |
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Ten percent of the population of the new member states are Roma gypsies, who have a long history of marginalisation and persecution. |
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Early in the action the eponymous hero, a Scottish mercenary soldier, is sentenced to be hanged together with a group of gypsies. |
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She argued the English Romany gypsies would be incompatible at the Thingley site with Irish travellers already there. |
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We do not consider these people to be gypsies or traditional Romanies but little more than itinerant workers. |
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He felt a certain sense of dread slowly creep over him as he watched her move to sit with another group of the nomadic gypsies. |
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After he said it, Brown was immediately angry with himself, for he truly wished to speak with the gypsies. |
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But then, with the growing interest in gypsies, and in fortune-telling, many gypsies stopped travelling to become showmen. |
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Many Romany gypsies and Irish travellers have since been unable to find suitable sites and have occupied land without planning permission. |
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Dozens of gypsies had assembled in their pony traps to welcome in the New Year. |
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My Mother always talked about them and their nests as if a caravan of thieving gypsies had set up camp in the back yard. |
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There's a real hustle-bustle to the city and scattered around its heart, you'll find fire-eaters, jugglers and gypsies. |
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In the hot summer months, the carnival would travel into the city, full of gypsies and fire breathers, mages and contortionists. |
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In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called tinkers because of their similar wandering life-style. |
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The gypsies, who number almost a million, have been outcasts for centuries. |
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So we dressed up for Halloween as gypsies and bums and hobos and other stereotypical costumes. |
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The rule has been applied to water, fire, gas, electricity, chemicals, explosions, fumes, flag-poles, fairground roundabouts, and even gypsies. |
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When the river gypsies drop by, she welcomes them, while the mayor institutes a hate campaign. |
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The case before him concerned refusals of permission for gypsies to site caravans in the Green Belt. |
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Luigi Bottaru, brothers and Friars Minor, have taken up residence in a camp for gypsies located at Sesto Fiorentino, a small town near Florence. |
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In Surrey and surrounding regions, a commonly used counteragent to the gypsies is celery root mixed with the blood of poultry, particularly chickens. |
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The village was small and away from any other, larger villages or towns, so the only travellers it saw where gypsies and a few wide-ranging traders. |
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As a Briton, I am ashamed of the way we treat gypsies and travellers. |
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He writes of penury, mud, flea-bitten puttees, a tired greatcoat, wet boots, a damp bedroll plus fireside sing-songs with murderous gypsies. |
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, gypsies, beggars, cony-catchers, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished. |
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However, in my contribution, I would like to home in on the predicament of the Roma people, otherwise known as gypsies. |
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Why Rupert Murdoch is polite Cardinal Martini, shaker, stirrer Sad gypsies From mayor's nest to the Kremlin? |
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The gypsies or tinkers as they were better known walked around the fair the whole day trying to sell ponnies, strainers and tin cans to reluctant buyers. |
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Quite near us, in Wigton, just beyond the cemetery, was a place called Black Tippoe and that was where gypsies and tinkers used to come and winter there. |
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As they were writing only a few years after gypsies had been victims of an attempted genocide, this is no trivial point. |
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This is the image that gypsies have in Italy, this is the image that the Roma have created, despite our best efforts. |
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Roma groups or gypsies from eastern Europe, speak their own language, Romani. |
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As citizens of Europe par excellence, gypsies cross countries without taking borders into consideration. |
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In Belgium, the town of Mons decided to adopt the opposite course by becoming a pilot town in the way it receives gypsies. |
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The proposals were first floated in a report produced by a council-led scrutiny inquiry into gypsies and travellers and were revealed in the Daily Echo in October. |
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We rode in the woods where gypsies lived in bright caravans. |
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There was a small section in the museum to talk about other groups who were persecuted, including gay men, gypsies, trade unionists and communists. |
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He was a political and social activist who devoted twenty years of his life to regaining the rights of gypsies and became a member of the gypsy community. |
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One photograph reminded me of a time long ago, when I was just a child and the likes of traveling minstrels, tinkers, gypsies, rag-and-bone men et al, were the norm. |
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Singers ranging from Romany gypsies to an Algerian rapper join him. |
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Sometimes he snuck out to watch the gypsies down by the tracks, or to walk through the cemetery, sit on a grave. |
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The gypsies hold a kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, and all the clumsy games that extract money from clumsy hands. |
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Gamins, snappy in pinstripe suits and cross-culture printed silk, dress up for the evening like gypsies in a dizzy fandango of swirling, hand-painted silk ruffled skirts. |
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In this context an effort has been made to encourage individuals from minority cultures, especially gypsies, to engage in cultural forms of expression. |
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At Windsor, the rustics who dance in the antimasque ask how they themselves might become gypsies. |
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Throughout this period, he seemed to benefit from the protection of jazz-loving German officers, saving him from deportation, the sad fate of so many gypsies. |
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They are villains in her books: in Saville's, not only are the gypsies good characters, but people who are prejudiced against them generally turn out to be no good. |
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Their very different treatment of gypsies shows this. |
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Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. |
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He recently quoted Mrs Merkel as saying that Germany was about to put in place a policy of expelling gypsies just like France's, which drew a sharp denial from the chancellery. |
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All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan I had, with the tail of my eye, seen him pressing desperately forward, and had seen the knives of the gypsies flash as he won a way through them, and they cut at him. |
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Noting that the delegation had mentioned persons living in Czech territory who had not been granted Czech citizenship, he wished to know whether the delegation was referring to the gypsies. |
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One reflection of the extremist views which are being more openly expressed by the day is the fact that hatred of gypsies is growing throughout Europe. |
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On May 20th the European Parliament added its voice by censuring Italy for its treatment of gypsies. The frenzied debate that surrounded the drafting of the government's new measures has also revealed pitfalls ahead. |
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The gypsies were interested in the campers' food, but they chased them off. |
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One winter afternoon the gypsies come by and the cook gives them bread and when they complain about the meagerness of this offering, she gives them a bit more. |
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A family of Bulgarian gypsies who came to Britain to scrounge benefits have been given a house a less than three weeks after arriving in the country. |
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The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing. |
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