"Gyp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accustomed to give Gyp—Sybille Gabrielle Marie Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville—little credit for seriousness or morality, associating her with the average brilliant, flippant novelists, who write because they possess the knack of writing in a brilliant style. ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... 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. ad Cantab., ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... powers, and yet he never appeared conscious of it himself. It is surprising how considerate he was of the feelings of others. I remember a large print of Pope Leo XIII. which used to hang in his rooms as an undergraduate, which delighted his gyp, who was a Romanist, but scandalised his Protestant friends. I begged earnestly for a copy of one of his prize essays, which had been printed though not published. He at first consented, but almost immediately ...
— Letters to His Friends • Forbes Robinson
... at Brighton was in a terrace. He had been there before. It was kept by his old college gyp, a man of discreet silence, who was admirably partnered by an excellent cook. The rooms were on the first floor. The two bedrooms were at the back, and opened out of each other. "Saunders can have the smaller one, though it is the only ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... of Jerry Travis and her chum Gyp Westley. A thread of romance and mystery in Jerry's life runs through ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
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