gainsaying
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Susy hovers about us this holiday week, and the shadows fall all about us of "The days when we went gipsying A long time ago."
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
History has seen strange hypotheses; but of all extravagant notions, that one that the world has been conquered by what was originally an idyllic gipsying party is the most grotesque.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
But there was something glorious in the thought of gipsying across the autumn prairie like that, without a thought or worry as to where we must stop or what trail we must take.
From The Prairie Wife by Dunn, Harvey
Revooma, my boy or boatman—everybody has a boy as a kind of body servant who goes gipsying all alone on this lovely seaboard—Revooma, I say, holds the sculls, and I am dreamily steering.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
Meantime she sang: her song was— “In the days when we went gipsying, A long time ago.”
From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.
