"Gyp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going," she said. "The rent's paid a month in advance. Don't let that Shylock landlord gyp you." ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans
... best playmate that a boy can have? Did any one ever hear of Towser or Gyp being false friends? And the soft, dainty, cunning bit of a fluffy ball of a kitten who comes rubbing its downy sides against the tiny girl's skirts begging for a return caress, is there a play-fellow more lovable? And the squirrel who comes begging at ...
— Animal Children - The Friends of the Forest and the Plain • Edith Brown Kirkwood
... matter with you, John?" I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself. "You look as though ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... going to have such a delicious plunge. See—to-night I have put on pearls, and diamonds, and rings, that the Baronessa would never let me wear. And I 've got a whole bagful of books, to read in the train—Anatole France, and Shakespeare, and Gyp, and Pierre Loti, and Moliere, and Max Beerbohm, and everybody: all the books the Baronessa would have died a thousand deaths rather than let me look at. That's the nuisance of being a woman of position—you 're brought up never ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... deaf innocent old lady, Mrs. Araminta Mergle, who was understood to be herself a very redoubtable Character in the Gyp-Bedder class; about her he related quietly absurd anecdotes. He displayed a marvellous invention in ascribing to her plausible expressions of opinion entirely identical in import with those of the Oxford and Harvard Pragmatists, against ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... gate-bills, he will be out at night as late as he pleases, and will defy any one to discover his absence; for he will climb over the college walls, and fee his Gyp well, when he is out all night—Grad. ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall |
