The Wind on the Heath: A Gypsy AnthologyJohn Sampson |
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... half of which was done By thinking of his ' whens ' and ' hows ' ; And half , by knitting of his brows Beneath the glaring sun . There was a hardness in his cheek , There was a hardness in his eye , As if the man had fixed his face , In ...
... half of which was done By thinking of his ' whens ' and ' hows ' ; And half , by knitting of his brows Beneath the glaring sun . There was a hardness in his cheek , There was a hardness in his eye , As if the man had fixed his face , In ...
Page 258
... half admiringly , half sorrowfully , with sixteen stone on his back , he'll trot fourteen miles in one hour ; with your nine stone , some two and a half more , ay , and clear a six- foot wall at the end of it . ' ' I'm half afraid ...
... half admiringly , half sorrowfully , with sixteen stone on his back , he'll trot fourteen miles in one hour ; with your nine stone , some two and a half more , ay , and clear a six- foot wall at the end of it . ' ' I'm half afraid ...
Page 316
... half dozen distinctively Romany names , it is evident that the suspicion of Sir Richard Burton having a drop of Gypsy blood in his descent - crossed and commingled though it be with an English , Scottish , French and Irish strain - is ...
... half dozen distinctively Romany names , it is evident that the suspicion of Sir Richard Burton having a drop of Gypsy blood in his descent - crossed and commingled though it be with an English , Scottish , French and Irish strain - is ...
Contents
LORDS OF THE UNIVERSE | 3 |
THE YOUTHFUL RUSKIN SPEAKS | 10 |
WHERE DO WE COME FROM? | 16 |
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