| 单词 | Romany |
| 例句 | The glasses man had told me that Janowska was also for political prisoners as well as Poles, Romanies, and even some Ukrainians. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Every communist. The Romanies. But especially the Jews...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Nobody denies that the Romany people need a permanent place of abode.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Indeed, without a permanent site, how will Romanies ever be taught the responsibilities of citizenship? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The neck scarf and the rope belt around his flannel trousers may have been playful Romany touches. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You’ve cut his bloodline in half and he’s going to have a terrible life. He won’t be able to marry into a Gypsy family or live on a Romany Gypsy site.” The Gypsy wedding that changed my life 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Songs she sang in the Romany language were played on the radio well beyond Macedonia, and she toured concert halls as early as the 1960s. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Her father, a singer and drummer, performed at weddings, and her family encouraged her to learn Romany music while in elementary school. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Why was this lady wearing this beautiful Romany costume? Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z “By the time we left, Romany was the mayor.” How Romany Malco Became an Early Online Star 2012-04-13T17:30:00Z For Romanies, their bloodline is everything and it has to be absolutely pure. The Gypsy wedding that changed my life 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Mr. Saura’s works form the bulk of the fourth annual “O Dikhipen — Gitanos en el Cine,” a series that explores the impact and portrayal of Gypsies, or Romany, in Spanish cinema. In Transit Blog: Historic Madrid Theater Celebrates Spanish Directors 2011-09-11T10:00:38Z His somewhat nostalgic designs are inspired, he said, by an amalgam of period influences: old botanical engravings, Romany culture and Dust Bowl portraits, to name a few. New York Fashion Week: Where the Future Stars May Be 2010-09-09T04:20:00Z She was born in Belgrade to a Romany father and Croatian mother. Ljiljana Buttler obituary 2010-05-12T17:43:00Z The documentary about the Irish Traveller and Romany Gypsy communities prompted more than 500 complaints to media regulator Ofcom over scenes featuring children fighting and a deer being killed by a dog. Channel 4's Gypsy Blood wins Grierson award 2012-11-07T12:53:22Z Heathcliff, an outsider and outcast, is stigmatised as a dark-skinned gipsy and Arnold initially tried to find a Romany actor for the role. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z “Hendra” arrives alongside a book about his parents, “Romany and Tom: A Memoir.” Ben Watt, Mournful but Optimistic, at Joe’s Pub 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z There was something urgent and urban about the Edun show — and it made for a strong meld of Romany freedom and life’s reality. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z So one day, he packs some bags, grabs Ocean and Suzy, tosses his mobile phone into the sea, and sets off in Romany, the yacht from his bachelor days. Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z The director is Romany himself, and there’s no narrator, so the story is told through song and subtitles with no contrivance at all. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z In the 1880s, the Black Patch was a thriving Romany community on the industrial edge of Birmingham. Was Charlie Chaplin a Gypsy? 2011-02-17T22:00:02Z He grew up in a family of Romany gypsies. A British traveller’s travelogue 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z My family were Romany Gypsies but my father was not. The Gypsy wedding that changed my life 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z But we filmed all over the country; we filmed Irish Travellers, Romany Travellers, English Travellers – a really broad range of people. The conversation: Does Big Fat Gypsy Weddings tell the truth about Travellers? 2012-02-10T21:30:01Z Fashion’s on-again-off-again love affair with Romany inspirations has indeed been rekindled of late, more reflective in its current incarnation of a mood or attitude, Ms. Burke suggested, than an actual trend. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z “Romany Meets His Friends,” the first series to be produced under that deal, will follow Mr. Malco as he surprises his Facebook friends in person after studying their interests and updates. How Romany Malco Became an Early Online Star 2012-04-13T17:30:00Z We know we're in for a fraught adventure because Romany is haunted by the ghost of its unknown previous owner, and because Gavin may have suffered but has plenty left to lose. Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z "All over Europe, Gypsies are being persecuted again," he says, referring to the shanty towns of Romany economic refugees sprouting on the periphery of Paris, where he has another home. Goran Bregovic: 'I want to remind people what Gypsy culture's given' 2013-03-08T08:00:04Z The Romany family here owns “psychic healing shops” in New York, we’re told, but its members seem as if they could use a little psychic healing of their own. Television Review: ‘American Gypsies’ on National Geographic Channel 2012-07-16T22:24:41Z But my grandparents, proper Romanies, were affected: she had done a terrible thing to them. The Gypsy wedding that changed my life 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Radicalized by the leftist politics of “Red Vienna,” she spent the early 1920s designing social housing and improving conditions in Romany settlements. Modernist Triumph in the Kitchen 2010-09-26T18:44:00Z His family was Romany like Django's, and he loved that music. Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic 2012-08-19T21:00:00Z The songwriter has been named as a contender for Romany and Tom's Story, a memoir of his parents. Musician Watt makes non-fiction list 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z She went on to establish her reputation as one of the leading Romany singers, with tales of the happiness and woes of nomadic life, the atmosphere of weddings and the endless wandering of exile. Esma Redzepova 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z She looked at me long and searchingly, then said something in Romany. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z At the first Gypsy World Music Festival, a gathering of Roma musicians from 23 countries held in India in 1976, she was crowned Queen of Romany Songs by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z At an encampment in France, he plays music alongside fellow Romany people who regard him as a hero. Review: ‘Django’ Distills a Perilous Musical Moment 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Battling prejudice against her culture, Ms. Redzepova was a pioneer in bringing wider recognition and respect to Romany music. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He was very generous with me and invited me into his house and talked with me for six hours or so on different occasions about his life as a Romany gypsy man in England.” ArtsBeat: Mark Rylance Gives Away His Tony Award for 'Jerusalem' 2011-07-29T14:20:33Z Retailers seem to be responding to fantasy as deeply rooted as the Romany tribes. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z Yet on closer inspection, Mr. Dunda’s collection pointed to a Romany inspiration more commonly found on matchbooks and souvenir fans. Front Row: The Gypsy Look Rejoins the Fashion Caravan 2012-02-29T22:41:34Z A more sobering view is offered in “Gypsy,” a fictional portrait of life in a tumbledown Romany village in Eastern Slovakia, which opened this month at the Film Forum in Manhattan. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z The easygoing, charming Romany Malco could easily carry a good romantic comedy. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z When she sang about unrequited love, adversity or pride in the Romany culture, her voice was a caldron of emotions. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Everybody’s a control freak, everybody yells at everybody else and they all behave contemptibly while expressing contempt for people and culture not Romany. Television Review: ‘American Gypsies’ on National Geographic Channel 2012-07-16T22:24:41Z Actually, it housed the family rooster, or cockerel; Romany were traditionally keen on cockfighting as a sport. Bedding down in a gypsy caravan in a Scottish field The Traveller Movement, which advocates for Gypsies, Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers, also "noted the contrast between the response of the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom". Covid inquiry: Minority doctors less forthright about poor PPE, BMA says 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Romany Webb, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, says that law is critical to making sure that communities aren’t adversely affected by energy and pipelines. To fight climate change, environmentalists may have to give up a core belief 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Romany Webb of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University called the ruling “a blow, but it is nowhere near the worst-case scenario.” The Court vs. the Climate 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He said the star was with a group having a meal on Thursday night and he approached him in The Romany Rye pub. John Travolta poses for photos in Norfolk Morrisons and Wetherspoon 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “It’s a little shocking to see all of the impacted actions,” said Romany Webb, a Columbia Law School researcher focused on climate change. As climate change costs mount, Biden seeks to price damages 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The trouble starts for the Laurents when Seamus and his peers hire a band of goons to slaughter the inhabitants of a Romany encampment on their lands. Review: 'The Cursed' is a serious, bold and artful werewolf movie 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Romany Webb, an associate research scholar at Columbia Law School, said “a lot of people are talking about the difference between reported emissions and real ones.” Beyond Glasgow, Kerry pushes to close emissions gaps 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The victim, who was in his 20s, died on Romany Lane, in Tilehurst, Reading on Sunday at about 22:40 GMT. Reading stabbing: Three arrested on suspicion of murder 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Weir won the event in London but crashed out of the Rio race while it is a Games debut for Smith, his former training partner, who will be the first Romany Paralympian. Tokyo Paralympics day-by-day guide 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z The community is distinct from Romany gypsies and Irish travellers, but have faced many overlapping prejudices and inequalities, said Vanessa Toulmin, a professor at the University of Sheffield. Showman doctor: From travelling fairgrounds to the Covid frontline 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z One day about 20 years ago, actor Romany Malco was walking down Venice Boulevard, girlfriend and cousin in tow, when he decided to buy a set of fake teeth. Romany Malco's antiracism film: Too uncomfortable in theaters but perfect for your phone? 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z A Czech singer dubbed the Ella Fitzgerald of Gypsy music or the Queen of Romany. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Officers remain at Romany Lane and there will be an increased police presence there while the investigation continues. Reading stabbing: Three arrested on suspicion of murder 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “Weeds’ ” Romany Malco stars a widowed father of four caught up in the “Holiday Rush” in this new movie. What’s on TV This Week: Thanksgiving specials, Taylor Swift at the AMAs and more 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z We continued on to Carrer de la Cera, which is considered the birthplace of the Catalan rumba, and which has long been the center of the city’s Romany population. The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Mummies Unwrapped Mummy expert Ramy Romany investigates a mysterious underwater grave believed to be guarded by a Mayan serpent deity in the premiere of this new series. What's on TV Wednesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ on FX 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Remains to be seen: Egyptologist Ramy Romany is your guide to ancient burial practices in the new series “Mummies Unwrapped.” What’s on TV This Week, April 7-13: ‘Killing Eve,’ ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and more 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Romany Webb, senior fellow at the Sabin Center, cited three other far-reaching measures taken by this administration so far. Trump's environmental rollback rolls on 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z "You know what Romany did that was really funny?" added Hart. Kevin Hart, Malcolm D. Lee and Will Packer on putting together a motley crew for 'Night School' - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Similar recipes like Berkshire bacon pudding and Romany bacon pudding can be found around England - so how have they travelled to other parts of the country? Why faggots travel and groaty dick doesn't 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The Nazis proceeded through the the destruction of Jews, socialists, Romany people, LGBTQIA+ communities, people with disabilities, Jehovah’s Witnesses and many others. Five human rights we should enjoy – while we still can | Van Badham 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Later, as a teenager, I started carrying photographs of darker-haired family members in my wallet, to challenge the disbelief of those who thought I was lying about my Romany background. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Romany people, Le Bas argues, are “permanently trapped” in “the pincer of demonisation and romanticisation”. 'You can’t disregard pure racism': Gypsy writer Damian Le Bas on the prejudice against Travellers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z They were accompanied by some of Israel’s most eminent performers, singing in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Czech and Romany, with Lotoro conducting. Holocaust survivor, 85, sings at concert of music from the camps 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The Romany folk, obviously -- the Gypsies -- who are a tiny fraction of the population, the most marginal,and ar the poorest and least powerful people in the nation. How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z In 2014, Ms. Thorn’s duo partner and husband, Ben Watt, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the top British award for nonfiction, for “Romany and Tom,” a memoir about his parents. Trading One Stage for Another 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In our case, it didn’t just mean anyone who travelled around, regardless of their race: to us it meant our people specifically, the Romanies of Britain. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z In the future, Le Bas hopes he might articulate his culture through fiction but he also wants to defend the Romany language, which still has no official recognition in British law. 'You can’t disregard pure racism': Gypsy writer Damian Le Bas on the prejudice against Travellers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z To his parents, cousins and siblings, these relatively recent immigrants are simply "the Africans," viewed with fear and contempt from the Romanies' slightly higher position in the hierarchy of social outcasts. Neorealist 'A Ciambra' captures a boy's life in a changing Italy The Roma Bridging Sounds orchestra performed Ederlezi, a popular Romany folk song created in the Balkans. Holocaust memorial service pays tribute to victims of genocides 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z "The Trump administration has sort of studied the playbook of some states," said Romany Webb, a fellow at Columbia's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. New Climate Censorship Tracker Comes Online 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z I was raised, and still live, in a Romany psychological realm; a mental Gypsyland. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Trapped in a border town and reunited with Romany brethren whose plight gnaws at him, he grows a political conscience and eventually takes part in a daring plan tied to a concert for German officials. Guitarist Reinhardt biopic 'Django' hits some flat notes – LA Times 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z But, instead, the young woman runs away to the Balkans to do field work on the DNA of her ancestors, the Romanies. Classic Musicals, Updated 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Redzepova, who performed at venues across the world over the course of her career, was first acclaimed as the Queen of Romany Song in 1976, at a world festival of Romany music held in India. Esma Redzepova, Macedonia's 'Romany music queen', dies at 73 - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The roots of the Dale Farm story stretch back to the 1970s when 40 English Romany families were allowed to live beside an illegal scrap yard in Essex. Dale Farm evictions: Five years on - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z I felt so close to my roots, and especially to the Romany women who had brought me up – my mum; her mother, Gran; and Gran’s mother, Nan. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Billy Welch explains the significance of Appleby, an important event in the Romany Gypsy calendar. 'I am a gypsy. This is our Mecca' - BBC News 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z And as the travelers cross unmarked borders and the dialogue dips into brief, nonsubtitled passages of Turkish or Romany, "Aferim!" conjures a world in flux. 'Aferim!' is a wickedly droll ride into Romania's feudal past 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He told her he felt Italian, not Romany, she said. Rome pledges to dismantle Roma ghettos after court ruling 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Saunders, meanwhile, harbours dreams of becoming the first member of Britain's Romany Gypsy community to win a world title. Who could fight whom this year? 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Compared with the insults and slurs, the words Romanies, Gypsies, and Travellers were dignified, and we used all of them interchangeably. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z To share Roma culture with the world, and to prove that Romany is a modern, living, breathing language. 'I am the Roma Elvis' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z A 2012 study by the Czech Ombudsman's Office revealed that an estimated 35% of children attending special classes were Romany, despite the Roma making up at most 2.8% of the Czech population. Roma complain of Czech school segregation 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Underscoring how stubbornly they languish, a recent parliamentary study confirmed that poor white British children do worse in school than those of any other group save Romany gypsies. The trials of life in Tilbury 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Two Seans - one from Bristol and the other from Leeds - both write that muller is an old English Romany word meaning "to kill", and the word mulla means corpse. Readers' 48 words for defeat 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The first Romanies probably arrived on the British mainland towards the end of the 15th century, and had been a contentious presence ever since. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The plight of modern-day refugees is just one of many problems that keeps Ms. Bejarano singing — in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, English, French and Romany, the language of the Roma, or Gypsies. Amid the Rap Music, Echoes of an Orchestra Playing in a Dark Past 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A total of 12% of inmates in those centres, which hold 12-18 year olds, said they were Gypsy, Romany or Traveller. One in 20 prisoners 'are Gypsies' 2014-03-11T23:42:08Z About his mood swings, his attitudes to women, his Romany heritage, his public persona, his religious beliefs. Inside the complicated mind of Tyson Fury 2014-02-12T11:49:14Z "A lot of the fighters in gyms on the amateur circuit are travellers," says the current middleweight British and Commonwealth champion, who is himself a Romany gypsy. Gypsy boxing ready for the big time 2013-10-11T23:08:06Z In the old Romany tradition, you can only call yourself a true Romany Gypsy – one of the kaulo ratti, the black blood – if all your ancestors, as far as you know, are of the tribe. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Researchers said the findings were important evidence for use in educating populations that accept and sanction cousin marriages - including Amish, Kurdish, Romany and other relatively closed communities - about the potential risks for children's health. Risk of birth defect doubles for cousin couples -study 2013-07-03T23:01:57Z The international authors of the peer-reviewed paper in Current Biology journal said their study is the most comprehensive ever of the demographic history of the Romany. IHT Rendezvous: Romany Were European 500 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought 2012-12-08T14:55:35Z But it is not unreasonable to point out that he receives some sickening abuse relating to his Romany roots, of which he is immensely proud. Inside the complicated mind of Tyson Fury 2014-02-12T11:49:14Z Yet our writers, from Borrow to Kipling, delight to urge us to ha' done with the tents of Shem, dear lass, and follow the Romany patteran. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z I have both Gypsy and non-Gypsy blood and so, in many Travellers’ eyes, I do not have the right to call myself a true-bred Romany. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z I never yet knew the Romany who did not pitch his tent in the loveliest spot for miles around. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Previous studies largely overlooked the place of Europe's 11 million Romany in the Continent's gene pool. IHT Rendezvous: Romany Were European 500 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought 2012-12-08T14:55:35Z I learned a little Romany, and was always on the lookout for gipsies. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z “I’m no rye, and ‘sarishan’ is all the Romany I know. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z But there were other trappings of Romany life, when it was lived most richly: beautiful furnishings, gilded surfaces, portable pictures, talismans and silks. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Romany, Rommany, rom′a-ni, n. a gipsy: the language of the gipsies.—adj. belonging to the gipsies.—Romany rye, a gentleman who affects the society of gipsies. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z My colleague Chris Cottrell wrote in October of continuing discrimination in a report on a ceremony in Berlin to unveil a memorial commemorating an estimated half million Romany who died in the Holocaust. IHT Rendezvous: Romany Were European 500 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought 2012-12-08T14:55:35Z Serjeant Borrow could not understand George with his extraordinary taste for the society of queer people—the wild Irish and the ragged Romanies. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z There are not many Romanies to be seen about here nowadays. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z As she passed the encampment she said something in Romany, and one of the men sprang to his feet with a shrill whistle. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z They were prohibited from using the Romany tongue, from retaining their gipsy surnames, from wandering about the country, from eating carrion, and from dealing in horses. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z Borrow describes himself in that pugnacious defence of Lavengro which forms the appendix to "The Romany Rye." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z But this was not the book that gypsy-loving Borrow, with the temperament of a Romany, should have written, or could have written had he not been obsessed by the “science” of his subject. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z I thought so when I saw him, so I spoke to him in Romany or gypsy talk. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z We had a Romany woman once with us who told fortunes. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Mankell was a tall, slight, wiry-looking fellow in the prime of life, with coal-black hair and olive complexion--apparently of Romany extraction. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z The four books of Borrow which belong to English literature are "The Bible in Spain," "Lavengro," "The Romany Rye" and "Wild Wales." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z But I am earnestly desirous for my conscience’ sake to publish nothing in the Romany which shall not be true and sensible, even as all that you have written is true and sensible. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z And this man thought I was one of them because I spoke to him in Romany.” Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z Some of these Romany people are almost as swarthy as negroes. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z We were Romany ryes in twenty minutes or less, and had already been taking tea with the gipsies for half the time. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z "Lavengro" and its sequel, "The Romany Rye," are properly classified in Everyman's Library under fiction, and "The Bible in Spain" is classified as "Travel and Topography." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Not one of them seemed when Borrow published his Word Book of the Romany to see that he was the only man of genius among them. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z And we were to have a dinner al fresco on the green sward after the manner of your true Romany Rye. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z In the old days the Romany fared ill in the Peninsula. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The two or three we had found about the fire were still reserved, but these, I found, were only half-gipsies, and understood very little Romany. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Several reasons have occurred to me, one of which is that his knowledge of Welsh Romany was of the shakiest kind. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z It was the failure of The Romany Rye that prevented Borrow from writing the Cornish book that he had caused to be advertised in the flyleaf of that work. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The song again was in the Romany tongue. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Lavi was a Romany by birth, and a bold matador of his day. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Since then I have learned enough of Romany to take my part in such a conversation, but at the time a word or two here and there was all I could understand. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z For, beyond doubt, the finest specimens of the Romany race are—or were in Borrow’s time—to be found in Wales. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Whether he made sufficient profit out of a horse, as in The Romany Rye, to enable him to travel upon the proceeds, as Dr. Knapp thinks, we cannot say. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Granny Ann called a grizzled old man from 72 the fireside speaking rapidly in a strange language, her own Romany tongue, in fact. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Effie, in her saucy little straw hat, and her long cloak of crimson, did not look at all unlike a real Romany. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z The Appendix to The Romany Rye contains an assault upon the memory of Sir Walter Scott, of which every word is a blow. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z “Wild Wales” seems to have disappointed Borrovians because it ignores the Welsh gypsies, the most superior branch of all the Romany race, except, perhaps, the gypsy musicians of Hungary. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Dr. Knapp in his anxiety to prove that Borrow wrote his own memoirs in Lavengro and Romany Rye tells us that he had no creative faculty—an absurd proposition. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z It was her grandmother’s, and what she said was not understood, since it was in the Romany language. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z There's a drop of Romany blood in me, And days there are when it swirls and leaps Like a river's race or a surging sea, Stirring to life all my calmer deeps. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z Of their life in the Dingle let no man speak; it must be read in the last chapters of Lavengro, and the early ones of The Romany Rye. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z There is a very wide class, including p. xxindeed the whole of British Philistia, that cherishes a positive racial aversion to the Romany—an aversion as strong as the Russian aversion to the Jew. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z He was, he tells us in The Romany Rye, “in tolerably easy circumstances and willing to take some rest after a life of labour.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z He was very generous with me and invited me into his house and talked with me for six hours or so on different occasions about his life as a Romany Gypsy man in England. Tony Award given to man who inspired character 2011-07-28T08:30:38Z She met one or two people, and accosted them in the true Romany style. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Borrow has indeed, in the Appendix to the Romany Rye, written of Sir Walter after a fashion for which I hope he has been forgiven. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z So great is the work of that admirable scholar upon the subject that he told me when I last saw him that he was actually translating Omar Khayyam into Welsh Romany! Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z At Oulton he used to allow them to encamp in his grounds, and he would visit them, with a friend or alone, talk to them in Romany, and sing Romany songs. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Fury is eligible to box for the vacant Irish crown thanks to his Romany family heritage and is eyeing a clash with the veteran Belfast brawler Martin Rogan. Tyson Fury in no rush to challenge for world heavyweight title 2011-07-24T14:29:50Z Only, neither she nor Dot was dressed properly to run through Milton’s best residential streets after the Romany people. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z Turning to the Gipsy men she spoke a few sharp words in the Romany tongue. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z And these strictures, if we consider them, will explain much in regard to the philological disquisitions in “Lavengro,” “The Romany Rye,” and “Wild Wales,” where the knowledge is all “dictionary knowledge.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z There were here and there enthusiasts for his Lavengro and Romany Rye. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The Romany word chavi - meaning child - was recorded in the 19th Century. Why is 'chav' still controversial? 2011-06-03T09:38:47Z When Scalawag brought the Corner House girls to that corner the car was so far away that the girls’ voices at their loudest pitch could not have reached the ears of the Romany folk. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z It takes many years to earn the confidence of a Romany. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z In one variety of that form he gave us “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye,” in the other, “Wild Wales.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z I have seen him sitting over my fire in my room at that office for hours, half asleep, and crooning out Romany songs while waiting for my chief.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Plainly there was a big tribe of the Romany folk encamped in this spot. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z The suggestion that the bracelet had been stolen by the Romany folk did not seem at all improbable. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z “This is what she writes: ‘A charm for the Romany girl. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z Borrow was wandering in wild Wales and finishing "The Romany Rye." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He could not even give the word “Rúmani” its accent, and called it “Romany.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z No doubt Germanía contains gypsy words, but it is no more identical with Romany than are the Fr. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z It is not easy being a Romany Gypsy rider in eventing, a sport which often attracts people from privileged backgrounds. Gypsy dreams 2011-02-25T04:16:28Z Ages and ages ago, the Romany was called a Jat. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z Romany Gypsies are aggrieved that there is no distinction made between them and Irish Travellers. Letters to Media Guardian 2011-02-14T07:00:00Z This glamour is to be found in Lavengro and The Romany Rye, to which books we shall come in due course. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z In the following pages a translation only has been given, as a rule, of the Romany words, but references have been added which will enable los del aficion to acquire fuller knowledge elsewhere. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Who should know but I, who am of the gentle Romany? The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The words will come unbidden to the lips of the Romany girl. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z "Some other day," said I, "I may visit you in your camp in the dingle and read you the master's book about the Romanys." The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z The earliest literary efforts of Borrow in Spain were his two translations of St. Luke’s Gospel—the one into Romany, the other into Basque. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Roma, the husbands, is the generic name of the gypsy nation, or Romany. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Had Granny Tunks been strong enough she would have attempted to prevent the landing of this hostile force; but Luke was useless and the Romany girl still more so. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z But you shall see them again and you shall make them red of face for the trick which they played on you and your friends, my Romany girls. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z "So now," said I, "since I have shown you that you are a queen you will surely give me a choomer"—this being a kiss in Romany talk. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z He would sometimes sing one of his Romany songs, shake his fist at me and look quite wild. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The first Gypsy woman said something in the Romany dialect to the others, and the men drifted away, only the woman awaiting the coming of the girls of Central High. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z I don't trust these two women"—he looked at Granny and the Romany girl—"also Luke Tunks might be lurking about. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z None but the people of the Romany would think of such a thing. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z "Where," I asked, "are the Romany chals and the Romany chis?" The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z In The Romany Rye the incidents apparently occur between 19th July and 3rd August, 1825. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z But the other girls, who were not so well acquainted with the Romany people, felt that the adventure in the Gypsy camp promised much excitement. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z A Romany gal, as I found——" "That will do. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Through it he can hold converse with the Romanys of the world. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z “I always meant to tell you that you made the prettiest gypsy in the world, the nice, romantic Romany kind, you know, with a handsome lover and everything as spuzzy as gypsies could have.” Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z “Borrow’s genders are perversely incorrect”; and “Romany”—a word which can never get out of our language, let philologists say what they will—should have been “Romani.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z She was a bold girl herself, and not at all afraid of the Romany folk. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z On inquiry being made it appeared that the Romany girl, bribed by Mrs. Vand to assist her flight, had made a cup of tea for the constable. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z “None but a true daughter of Romany could have said those words so well.” The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z With the dignity of the Romany people and Romania's national identity at stake, a lot is riding on the outcome of this semantic clash. Romania's Government Moves to Rename the Roma 2010-12-08T21:45:00Z We recall the man in the field in the twenty-second chapter of The Romany Rye who used Wordsworth’s poetry as a soporific. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z “But such pretty little ladies are bound to have pretty fortunes,” replied the Romany woman. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z There is a good deal of humbug about her, as there is about all the Romany tribes. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The Romany princess, she of the brown eyes, may wander at will. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z It is hard to see any of that working soon: the Romanies were slaves in Romania until the mid-19th century. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z In spite of contemporary criticism, The Romany Rye is a great book, or rather it contains the concluding chapters of a great book. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z “If Miss Carrington hasn’t settled with the Romanies and given them what they wanted, you can make sure that they will take a hand in the matter again.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Aided vigorously by the Romany girl, the old woman would have closed in, but that a shout from the opposite bank made all turn. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z “It shall be as the Romany girl wishes, but she must be grave, she must not make her real self known to the laughing boy.” The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z Many Romanies do not even get that far. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z The failure of The Romany Rye, which was due for publication before Wild Wales, accounts for this, and perhaps also the disappointment that another book, long since ready, did not find a publisher. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z We Romany folk pick up all sorts of information—yes!” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Within the cottage all was quiet, although at intervals he could hear the querulous voice of Mrs. Tunks shrilly scolding the Romany girl. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The traditional word “Gypsy” is seen as pejorative by some and inaccurate by others though some Romanies robustly defend its use. Romanies and terminology: Words not deeds 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z In Britain the Big Issue magazine, designed to give homeless people something to sell instead of begging, has found eager takers among foreign Romanies. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z In the p. 236letter from which I have quoted Mary Borrow tells Anne Borrow that her son will, she expects at Christmas, publish The Romany Rye, “together with his poetry in all the European languages.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z “But the Romany folk are peculiar people, and they have laws of their own and do not like to be brought under those of other countries.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Here he laid her on the floor, and hastily bidding the Romany girl attend her, hurried out again. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Strangely in an age that prizes gender-neutral language, that is the literal plural of “Rom”, a Romany word meaning man or husband. Romanies and terminology: Words not deeds 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z Romanies A long road Europe’s Romanies have a mostly horrible time. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z But all this is a digression from the progress of our narrative of the advent of The Romany Rye. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z “When you eat the bread and salt of the Romany folk they remain your friends.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z A gal o' mine, of the true Romany breed, looking after him. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Command of the language among the younger Romanies is fading, partly under the onslaught of popular culture, but also because parents fear it will hurt their children’s chances in school. Romanies and terminology: Words not deeds 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z Headlines in Europe this month have highlighted the continent’s worst, and most ill-managed social problem: the treatment of millions of Romanies who face at best discrimination and at worst persecution. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z But Borrow’s hobbies included the Romanies of every land, and a year later he produced and published a gypsy version of the Gospel of St. Luke. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The school teacher had evidently not settled with the Romany folk. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Granny Tunks, looking very sulky, was on her hunkers before the fire smoking her cutty pipe, and the Romany girl could be seen lying on Luke's vacated bed in the inner room. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z "Quite like a gipsy," suggested Flo, and she decided at that moment that she had always entertained a distinct preference for the Romany type of manly beauty. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Romanies in Europe, like any other ethnic group, are no monolith. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z “I felt some desire,” he says in The Romany Rye, “to meet with one of those adventures which upon the roads of England are generally as plentiful as blackberries in autumn.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z I remember that we saw one of the great, lop-eared animals in leash when that party of Romanys went past our place last week.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z But a glance from the glossy Romany eye of Mrs. Tunks sent her shuddering out of the room. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The reader has only to compare the dialogues between gipsies given in that photographic study of Romany life, In Gipsy Tents, by F.H. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" It is hardly surprising that, given the chance, many Romanies try their luck in the richer countries of western Europe. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z He had some predecessors and many successors, but “none could then, or can ever again,” says the biographer of a later Rye, “see or hear of Romanies without thinking of Borrow.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Do not cross the Romany folk—it is bad luck!” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z "Come with us," they cried; "we are here for the greatest plunder ever taken or dreamed of among the Romany——" "Hush, I command you," cried the elder man. The Firebrand For picturesque as is Borrow’s style, it is this subject-matter of his, the Romany world of Great Britain, which—if his pictures of that world are true—will keep his writings alive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" For their part, the Bronx Romanies view the old continent with mixed sympathy and disdain. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z Breviter, I have thrown the results of my observations among English gypsies into a very unpretending little volume consisting almost entirely of facts gathered from the Romany, without any theory. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z She told me this morning that the constable over there looked for the camp, but the Romany folk had moved on.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z The Sergeant nodded approval of this sentiment and addressed the old gipsy in deep Romany, to which he listened with respect, and answered in a milder tone, shaking his head meanwhile. The Firebrand The fact that his mother had belonged to one of the leading Romany tribes Phillips found greatly to his advantage. Hard Pressed President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that Luxembourg, the home of the EU’s justice commissioner, might like to provide the Romanies with homes. Romanies: A long road 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z The book was now in two volumes, and we see that the word Romany had dropped an “m”: p. 223The Romany Rye: A Sequel to “Lavengro.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The Gypsy girl could run and leap like a hare—as she had proven the day the girls of Central High had seen her escaping from the encampment of her Romany companions. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z But this which is spoken by the Sergeant and La Giralda is deep Romany, the like of which not half a dozen in Spain understand. The Firebrand Among the other poems in this volume, it appears to us that "The Romany Girl," "Voluntaries," and "The Boston Hymn" are in their widely different ways the best. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Then again there is the inimitable ostler in The Romany Rye, whose talk exhales what Borrow would call “the wholesome smell of the stable.” The Vagabond in Literature No critic, however, was as severe as The Athenæum, which had called Lavengro “balderdash” and referred to The Romany Rye as the “literary dough” of an author “whose dullest gypsy preparation we have now read.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z An’ more’n ’us, lady, has mixed with the Romany—an’ in other climes aside Yorkshire. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Ha, brother," said this great hulk in deep tones, and in better Romany than the former had used, "thou art strangely modest in thy plundering. The Firebrand Like common Gipsies, these reverend Romany require their hands to be crossed with silver. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) And in The Cloister and the Hearth, one of the great romances of the world, one feels touches of the same Vagabond spirit as animates Lavengro and The Romany Rye. The Vagabond in Literature I have been incessantly occupied with matters needful to be done, but far less agreeable to do than reading The Romany Rye. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z She uttered a sentence or two in Romany and the two men whom the girls had seen before at the camp appeared. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z He beckoned La Giralda to him and whispered a word in Romany. The Firebrand One rapture throbs in the heart of the Romany youth who plights his troth under the forest tree, and the heart of the prince royal who kneels at the cathedral altar. The Land of Long Ago Cribbed in the close and dusty purlieus of the city, p. 85wearied by the mechanical monotony of the latest fashionable novel, we respond gladly to the spacious freshness of Lavengro and The Romany Rye. The Vagabond in Literature All I have said of Lavengro to yourself personally, or to others publicly or privately, I say again of The Romany Rye. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z “Surely the little lady will not be unkind to the poor Romany,” she whined. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z The Sergeant spoke again in a language apparently more intelligible than the deep Romany password with which he had first checked their deadly intentions. The Firebrand Nevertheless it was during the years that followed that, like Johnson, he achieved his best title to fame, the wondrous five volumes of autobiography so capriciously planned and so strangely entitled “Lavengro—Romany Rye.” George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 Lavengro and The Romany Rye are fine specimens of romantic autobiography. The Vagabond in Literature This letter is from the Vicar of Malew in acknowledgment of a copy of The Romany Rye published in the interval: To George Borrow, Esq. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z All you other people look down on the Romany folk.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z "Brother, I go into the town to complete my plunder," answered Rollo in Romany, "and to help my kinsfolk of the Gitano!" The Firebrand He proceeded with deliberation to carry on in “The Romany Rye” the story so abruptly suspended at the close of the hundredth chapter of “Lavengro.” George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 At any rate the episode, his friendship with this Anglo-Saxon girl of the road, is one of the distinctive features of both Lavengro and The Romany Rye. The Vagabond in Literature But The Romany Rye is not a sequel. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z His fists were clenched and he gabbled in the Romany tongue a string of what were evidently threats and vituperation. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z "And we of Granada—as you may both see and hear!" said the old gipsy, tossing her head with the scorn of the Romany for the outlander. The Firebrand To men of such close and restricted horizons the breath of the Romany Rye is as that of “the wind on the heath, brother.” George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 Affinities there were, no doubt, between the Romany and the “Gorgio” Borrow, but they are strong temperamental differences. The Vagabond in Literature The author of Lavengro, The Romany Rye, The Bible in Spain, and Wild Wales is one of those kings of literature who never need to number their tribe. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The bloodhound was fastened to one of the wagon wheels, and then the Romany folk paid no particular attention to their visitors. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Being a Sevillana, and with more than a drop of Romany blood in her veins, she hath never gotten the knack of that. The Firebrand Well, that was to be expected of a man who loved to live with the gipsies, and patter to them in Romany of Egyptian lore, for it could not have been want of means. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations Who can describe the bewildering delight when one first plunges into “Lavengro” and the “Romany Rye”? An Ocean Tramp This book was the result of Borrow's wanderings after the publication of "Lavengro" and "The Romany Rye." Shirley And all the Romany are kin, in some way. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z The Romany Rye adds only minor figures to the gallery, because the major figures have appeared before; while the plan and subject of Wild Wales also exclude anything more than vignettes. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 She wore sequin ornaments and a quantity of Oriental bangles, which enhanced the fantastic effect, and gave her the appearance of a true Romany. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life They walked at once to the gardens, found their Romany friend among the strawberries, and with much secrecy told her the whole affair. The Madcap of the School With the assistance of an eminent Oriental scholar who is perfectly familiar with both Hindustani and Romany, this man was carefully examined. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Sir G. Grierson has thrown out the picturesque suggestion that they are the ancestors of the European gypsies and that Rom or Romany is nothing more than a variant of Dom. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Not long before his death Lavengro, The Romany Rye, and Wild Wales were only in their third edition, though the first was nearly thirty, and the last nearly twenty, years old. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 George Borrow, in his singular narrative, "The Romany Rye," states that the sale of a wife, with a halter round her neck, is still a legal transaction in England. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I “Tell your fortunes, my pretty ladies?” pattered one of the Romanys. The Madcap of the School A specimen which we have of their language would, with the exception of one word, which is probably an error of the transcriber, be intelligible to any English Gipsy, and be called pure Romany. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement He did not do so, however, but sought out far different companions—namely, the Romanies whom he met at Tombland Fair and on Mousehold Heath. George Borrow in East Anglia It is a little spoilt in its later chapters by the purpose, the antipapal purpose, which appears still more fully in The Romany Rye. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is no less an honour to them, for while he lived the island did not contain a nobler English gentleman than him they called the “Romany Rye.” Old Familiar Faces The woman, indeed, was a beautiful specimen of Romany blood, tall and dark, with great flashing eyes and coarse black hair. The Madcap of the School Should the reader wish to reform a Gipsy, let him explain to the Romany that the days for roaming in England are rapidly passing away. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement He maintained that “Lavengro,” “The Romany Rye,” and “The Bible in Spain,” contained all of his life that it was necessary for posterity to know. George Borrow in East Anglia Of none of the numerous subjects of his linguistic rovings does Borrow seem to have been fonder, putting Romany aside, than of Welsh. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Once let the isolating wall which shuts off the Romany from the “Gorgio” be broken through, and the communicativeness of the Romany temperament begins to show itself. Old Familiar Faces “We’re to have a big reward, lady, for copping that German!” said the Romany woman. The Madcap of the School The mention of Mekran indicates clearly that the moon-sun story came from India before the Romany could have obtained any Greek name. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement You talk like a gorgio—which is the same as talking like a fool—were you a Romany chal you would talk wiser. George Borrow in East Anglia It would be a little interesting to know whether the continuation, The Romany Rye, which opens as if there had been no break whatever, was written continuously or with a break. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The same remark may be made upon the gipsy heroine’s sly allusion in ‘Kriegspiel’ to “Squire Lucas,” the Romany equivalent of Baron Munchausen, an allusion which none but a Romany student would understand. Old Familiar Faces She slipped from the tree, ran nearer to the edge of the wood, and gave the peculiar blackbird-like whistle which the Romany woman had taught her. The Madcap of the School Wherever there is an open pic-nic on the Thames, or a country fair, or a regatta at this season, there are Romanys. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement There were few amongst them who had not a fair knowledge of the old Romany tongue, though they were utterly ignorant of its source. George Borrow in East Anglia The series of Advertisements of Works by Borrow, announced as “Ready for the Press,” which occupy the last eight pages of the second volume of The Romany Rye are of especial interest. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In a very few years Welsh Romany will become absolutely extinct, and then this little gem, so full of the Romany feeling, will be greatly prized. Old Familiar Faces The Romany woman, herself as strong as any man, was helping with apparent gusto. The Madcap of the School Among the Welsh Gipsies, who are the most unsophisticated and the most purely Romany, I have met with touching instances of gratitude and honesty. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Few of the women ever thought of marrying out of the Romany tribe, and their virtue and constancy were an example to all classes of society. George Borrow in East Anglia The book was now in two volumes, and we see that the word Romany had dropped an m. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In the true Romany chi poetic imagination is combined with a homeliness and a positive love of respectability which are very curious. Old Familiar Faces The Romany Has crossed such delicate palms with lead or gold, Wheedling in sun and rain, through perilous years, All coins now look alike. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Romany will, in all human probability, be spoken on the other side of the Atlantic years after the last traces of it have vanished from amongst ourselves. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement When he comes to delineate a heroine, Isopel Bernes, she is physically the very opposite of the Romany chi—a Scandinavian Brynhild, in short.” George Borrow in East Anglia In The Romany Rye the incidents apparently occur between the 19th of July and the 3rd of August 1825. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow The talk during that first out of many most delightful strolls ran upon Benfey, and afterwards upon all kinds of Romany matters. Old Familiar Faces They will return to us with gipsy grins, And chatter Romany, and shake their curls And hug the dirtiest babies in the camp. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Now in common Romany we have, even in London:— Rom A Gipsy. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The method is not commendable, but the object that prompts it is highly praiseworthy—from a Romany point of view. George Borrow in East Anglia There is a copy of the First Edition of The Romany Rye in the Library of the British Museum. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow I soon found that, great as was the physical contrast between the Tarno Rye and the original Romany Rye, the mental contrast was greater still. Old Familiar Faces The Romany Rest was one of the prettiest conceits, and though an idealised gypsy encampment, it proved a very popular attraction. Patty's Summer Days There was one among them who with a smile upon his face, was cursing me in Romany from his heart. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Yes, it is quite true that the old race of gipsies is dying out; there are very few of the real old Romanies to be met with at the present day. George Borrow in East Anglia The years rolled on, and not until 1857 did The Romany Rye appear. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In personal appearance the two Romany Ryes were as unlike as in every point of character they were unlike. Old Familiar Faces But I say, Miss Romany, can’t you leave your post for a few minutes and go with me to the Japanese tea place, for a cup of their refreshing beverage?” Patty's Summer Days It is very easy to give a romantic and even a sentimental colouring to the wandering Romany. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Yes, as you say, it is a pity, for after all the Romanies are a strange people, and, bad as they may have been, they were not without their good points. George Borrow in East Anglia Accompanying the Manuscript of The Lord’s Prayer in Romany, is the Manuscript of a translation made by Borrow into the dialect of the English Gypsies. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Not that Meg, noble as she is, is superior to the kind of heroic woman that the Romany race is capable of producing. Old Familiar Faces “A Romany is not an ordinary gypsy and is always clothed in this particular kind of garb.” Patty's Summer Days But who cares for, or thinks about, the wandering Romany? Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement At the end of “The Romany Rye,” there appeared an Appendix, in which the author set himself the task of smashing his critics. George Borrow in East Anglia The head-line is The Romany Rye throughout, upon both sides of the page; each page also bears at its head the number of the particular Chapter occupying it. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Our close friendship dated no further back than 1881—the year in which died the great Romany Rye. Old Familiar Faces “I bow to your superior judgment, and I feel sure that all the patrons of the fair will spend most of their time at the ‘Romany Rest.’” Patty's Summer Days The gloss has long been taken off the picture which imaginative persons used to varnish for themselves as to the Romany. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Nearly all the male Romanies are possessed of a lithe, sinewy, active frame, combined with a quickness of hand and eye that gives them a considerable advantage over less alert antagonists of heavier build. George Borrow in East Anglia The wit and the skill Of the Father of ill, Who’s clever indeed, If they would hope With their foes to cope The Romany need. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow By-the-by, this charming play might be revived now that there is a revived interest in Romany matters. Old Familiar Faces So together they left the Romany Rest, and walked about the Fair, chatting with people here and there, until they reached the pergola. Patty's Summer Days He has now taken the case of the juvenile ‘Romanies’ in hand; and I wish him well in his benevolent crusade. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Still, the Romany blood pulses quickly, and when it flies to the swarthy cheek and sets the eyes flashing, the time has come for someone to beware. George Borrow in East Anglia In 1857, the book was included among the Advertisements appended to the second volume of The Romany Rye. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow But on some future occasion I hope to write something about his adventures as a Romany Rye. Old Familiar Faces The Romany strain, my mother was a Gipsy. The Silver Butterfly All through the summer day he walked, his Romany blood singing in his veins at the feel of the turf beneath his feet, and evening found him strolling contentedly through the village to his billet. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France The Romany race is fast dying out from our midst; but it is dying what the sportsman would call “game.” George Borrow in East Anglia In 1857 Borrow included the Tragedy among the series of Works advertised as “ready for the Press” at the end of the second volume of The Romany Rye. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In 1896 he published his Romany novel ‘Kriegspiel,’ which did not meet with anything like the success it deserved, although I must say he was himself in some degree answerable for its comparative failure. Old Familiar Faces ‘Here’s to the Romany Rye: here’s to the sweet master,’ said the jockey, dashing the bottle through a pane in so neat a manner that scarcely a particle of glass fell into the room. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' She spat a curse at him in Romany. Tinker's Dam East Anglia has for centuries been a favourite roaming ground for certain of the families of the true Romany tribe. George Borrow in East Anglia Why there was one and only one who ventured to say so, and that was George Borrow in his work entitled The Romany Rye. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow George Meredith’s wonderful ‘Kiomi’ was a picture, I think, of the only Romany chi he knew; but genius such as his needs little straw for the making of bricks. Old Familiar Faces But in a note to his edition of ‘The Romany Rye,’ p. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' A very interesting part of our vocabulary, the canting, or rogues', language, dates mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, and includes contributions from most of the European languages, together with a large Romany element. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) He himself attributes his success with the gipsies to his knowledge of the Romany tongue and customs, while they firmly believed that he had gipsy blood in his veins. George Borrow in East Anglia No! that's not our way, for we Are staunch lads of Romany. Rookwood Groome then turned to another of the performers, and was answered in English Romany. Old Familiar Faces And now another question, Mr. Romany Rye, have you particular words which have power to soothe or aggravate horses?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Usually he slept at The Derby Winner and loafed about the streets all day, but at times he went over to the gipsy camp near Southberry and fraternised with the Romany. The Bishop's Secret In “The Romany Rye” we have a whole chapter devoted to the emphasising of the chastity of the Romany girls, and their self-sacrificing devotion to their husbands. George Borrow in East Anglia Now for that of the other, Romany Chals, a name in which the English Gypsies delight, who have entirely dropped that of Zingary. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest Groome was one of the few Englishmen who knew the most interesting of all varieties of the Romany tongue. Old Familiar Faces He will now tell them what it’s not—a sister or an immediate daughter of the Sanscrit, which Romany is. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' He had stated that he was going back to The Derby Winner, and as it was his custom to come and go when he pleased, the Romany had not taken much notice of his departure. The Bishop's Secret George Borrow gives it as such, and I myself have heard Romanys call the sun kan, though kam is commoner, and is usually assumed to be right. The Gypsies A list of these is given at the close of The Romany Rye, and is referred to in these notes as “Bibliography” for the sake of concision. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest It therefore gives me the greatest pleasure to end these very inadequate words of mine with a beautiful little poem in Welsh Romany by Mr. Sampson upon the death of the “Tarno Rye.” Old Familiar Faces The waiter withdrew, and I said to the jockey, ‘How did you become acquainted with the Romany chals?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Lord bless 'ee,' mumbled Mother Jael, blinking her cunning eyes, 'he was one of the gentle Romany sure enough.' The Bishop's Secret The pronunciation of many of the words is singular, and very different from English or Romany. The Gypsies And The Romany Rye opens calmly with: “I awoke at the first break of day, and, leaving the postillion fast asleep, stepped out of the tent.” Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) “Romany guile,” which is well defined in the gipsy phrase as “the lie for the Gorgios,” does not prevent gipsy women from retaining some of the most marked characteristics of childhood throughout their lives. Old Familiar Faces ‘What do you mean by smelling a rat?’ said I. ‘I’ll bet a crown,’ said the jockey, ‘that you be the young chap what certain folks call “The Romany Rye.”’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Oh, tiny Jesus was a Romany chal, or may I die for it!' The Bishop's Secret I could go on all day with Romany songs; and I can count up to a hundred in the black language. The Gypsies There have been many Romany Ryes, or “Gypsy Gentlemen,” as Gypsies designate those who, though not of their race, yet have loved that race, and have mastered the Romany tongue. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) At Göttingen, where he afterwards went, he found himself in a kind of Romany atmosphere, for, owing perhaps to Benfey’s having been a Göttingen man, Romany matters were still somewhat rife there in certain sets. Old Familiar Faces ‘I think, brother, as I before said, that occasionally p. 48you utter a word of common-sense; you were talking of the Scotch, brother; what do you think of a Scotchman finding fault with Romany?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Evidently the Gentiles were no favourites in the camp of these outcasts, for the men lounging about murmured, the women tittered and sneered, and the very children spat out evil words in the Romany language. The Bishop's Secret I have found several fine specimens of real Romanys among the American Bosvilles. The Gypsies It is all the silliest moonshine, the most impossible Gypsies: no, Bulwer Lytton deserves no place among the real Romany Ryes. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) After a while p. 289I discovered that there were, besides Romany matters, other points of attraction between us. Old Familiar Faces You are so much of a Roman, and speak Romany so remarkably well.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Her word is law among the Romany folk, poor as she may be. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Now in common Romany we have, even in London,— Rom . The Gypsies There are flaws in it: he never would have spoken of the Gypsy beldame as “my mother there,” nor could he possibly have guessed that the Romany sap means “snake.” Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) But it was not merely upon Romany subjects that Groome found points of sympathy at The Pines during that first luncheon; there was that other subject before mentioned, Edward FitzGerald and Omar Khayyàm. Old Familiar Faces ‘Then you know nothing of the gypsies, brother; no people on earth are fonder of those trifles, as you call them, than the Romany chals, and more disposed to respect those who have them.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' "Do not shrink from the old Romany woman," advised the hag, her eyes sparkling again. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace The mention of Mekran indicates clearly that the moon story came from India before the Romany could have obtained any Greek name. The Gypsies This sounds truly Borrovian; and scattered through the amazing Etymologicon are twenty-six Romany words, very correctly spelt, which I used to think Whiter must have learnt from George Borrow. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) The fact is, as the Romanies say, that true friendship, like true love, is apt to begin at first sight. Old Familiar Faces Oh, I never troubled my head about your wife; but I suppose there have been love affairs between gorgios and Romany chies. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Constable Peck, having searched the Gypsy camp, believed that Ruth must have escaped from the Romany people at the same time as Helen. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace In its purity it is not mingled with Romany or thieves’ slang. The Gypsies Whiter appears to have known Romany better than Borrow. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) I have affirmed in ‘Aylwin’ that Sinfi Lovell—a born linguist who could neither read nor write—was the only gipsy who knew both English and Welsh Romany. Old Familiar Faces ‘I don’t see why a Romany chi should object to enter into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio.’ p. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Not even the kneeling ox had eyes like the Romany. Last Poems I was very much impressed at this fair with the extensive and unsuspected amount of Romany existent in our rural population. The Gypsies Borrow seems to have fancied it was Hungarian Romany, but it isn’t. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) Among the characteristic traits of the Romany woman, Meg does no doubt exhibit two: a wild poetic imagination and a fearlessness such as women rarely display. Old Familiar Faces ‘Then you mean to say, Ursula, that no Romany chi, unless compelled by hard necessity, would have anything to do with a gorgio?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Strange to say this was not my first linguistic effort, which was, as a matter of fact, the Romany word "bop." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 If we find strangers who do not know us, do not p. 232speak at first in Romany. The Gypsies “Some other day,” said I, “I may visit you in your camp in the dingle and read you the master’s book about the Romanys.” Danger! and Other Stories It is often in such relations as these with the Tarno Rye that the instinct of monogamy in the Romany woman is seen. Old Familiar Faces ‘I don’t know,’ said I; ‘it’s odd enough that I have asked that question of a dozen Romany chals and chies, and they always told me that they did not know.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Then she asked me for “the wizard blessing,” which I gave her in Romany. Memoirs Our informant did not know whether this word, of Romany origin, meant, in Shelta, policeman or magistrate. The Gypsies “So now,” said I, “since I have shown you that you are a queen you will surely give me a choomer”—this being a kiss in Romany talk. Danger! and Other Stories Not even Borrow and Groome, with all their intimate knowledge of gipsy life, ever painted a more vigorous picture of the Romany chi p. 303than this. Old Familiar Faces Not all clever people have thought Lavengro and The Romany Rye to be thus great. Immortal Memories The living curiosity of the place was a famous old gypsy woman named Gentilla Cooper, a pure blood or real Kalorat Romany. Memoirs I have always supposed that the tinkers’ language spoken of by Shakespeare was Romany; but I now incline to think it may have been Shelta. The Gypsies Such was Borrow’s first introduction to the Romany folk. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 It was the same with his knowledge of Romany matters, which was so vast. Old Familiar Faces If, after having read them, some enthusiasts go on to learn Romany and seek to trace authorities on Gypsies and Gypsy lore—why, let them. Immortal Memories As he had black eyes, and was a shoulder-hitter, and as the name in Romany means “a captain,” I daresay he was partly gypsy. Memoirs The result is that good singers among these lucky Romanys are well to do, and lead soft lives, for Russia. The Gypsies “The Romany Rye” has a thoroughly Borrovian ending, much in the manner of Sterne, as many of Borrow’s passages are. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 The unconquerable virtue of the Romany chi was often commented upon by Borrow; and, indeed, every observer of gipsy life is struck by it. Old Familiar Faces He denies in the Introduction to a new edition of The Romany Rye, just published, the claim of Borrow to be an East Anglian, although Borrow himself insisted that he was one. Immortal Memories I led unto it thus:—My friend Professor Palmer and I had projected a volume of songs in English Romany or Gypsy, which is by far the sweetest and most euphonious language in Europe. Memoirs I was told that she was gypsy, but she spoke no Romany. The Gypsies In his ‘Gypsies of Spain’ he speaks of pugilistic combats as ‘disgraceful and brutalizing exhibitions,’ but in the Appendix to ‘The Romany Rye’ we find that he now considers such language to be cant. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 In his desire to depict the supposed devilry of the Romany woman, Prosper Mérimée has perpetrated in ‘Carmen’ the greatest of all caricatures of the gipsy girl. Old Familiar Faces In four books—in Lavengro, Romany Rye, The Bible in Spain, and Wild Wales we have some delightful glimpses of an interesting personality, and here we may leave the personal side of Borrow. Immortal Memories I went off with the gloves, while the women roared out blessings in Romany. Memoirs The Jew may be more ancient, but even the authentic origin of the Romany is lost in ancient Aryan record, and, strictly speaking, his is a prehistoric caste. The Gypsies Both “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye,” be it noted, were written long after Borrow’s association with the Bible Society had come to an end. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 When he comes to delineate a heroine, Isopel Berners, she is physically the very opposite of the Romany chi—a Scandinavian Brynhild, in short. Old Familiar Faces She herself was in love with a Romany Rye. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" The women did not know me, but I knew them by description, and great was the amazement of one when I addressed her by name and in Romany. Memoirs Even in England there are straight-haired and curly-haired Romanys, the two indicating not a difference resulting from white admixture, but entirely different original stocks. The Gypsies A dank hole, yes, but in its cracked plaster the sense of Romany sunsets of yonder times. Europe After 8:15 The Welsh variety of the Romany tongue is quite peculiar, and the Romanies of the Principality are superior to all others in these islands in intelligence and in their passion for gorgio respectability. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest She was beautiful—quite remarkably so—but her beauty was not of the typical Romany kind. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" After a little while I found that the Romany element was spread strangely and mysteriously round about among the rural population in many ways. Memoirs But once heard it comes ever, as I, though in the city, heard it last night in the winter wind, with Romany words mingled in wild refrain:— “Kamava tute, miri chelladi!” The Gypsies There were even those, including some of the Romany themselves, who saw gipsy written in his peculiar eyes as in his character, wild and resentful, essentially vagabond, intolerant of convention and restraint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The “Amazonian Sinfi,” alluded to in Dr. Hake’s sonnet, was a heroine of this noble strain, and yet perhaps she was but a type of a certain kind of Romany chi. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest If you do give it up, it will grow up to be as fine a Romany chal as Mike himself.” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Dr. Knapp in his anxiety to prove that Borrow wrote his own memoirs in Lavengro and Romany Rye tells us that he had no creative faculty—an absurd proposition. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I class it with the gypsy, because all who speak it are also acquainted with Romany. The Gypsies We think of the road-side life seen by Parson Adams or Humphry Clinker, and of which Mr. Borrow caught the last glimpse when dwelling in the tents of the Romany. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The manufactured incidents of which there are so many in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye,” are introduced to give colour to a web of life that strong Passion had left untinged. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest “Lend me your pipe, Perpinia,” said Borrow, in that hail-fellow-well-met tone of his which he reserved for the Romanies—a tone which no Romany could ever resist. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" But this was not the book that gypsy-loving Borrow, with the temperament of a Romany, should have written, or could have written had he not been obsessed by the 'science' of his subject. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I thought of the feuds between sundry sturdy Romanys in England, and felt that I could suppose such a thing, without dangerously stretching my faith, and I began to believe in Russian gypsies. The Gypsies Although it was late in the afternoon when we reached that first camp, Camp Romany, two or three of us caught more than a hundred trout before sundown. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Yet, on the whole, I will not deny that Borrow was as successful in giving us vital portraits of English and Irish characters as of Romany characters, perhaps more so. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest It was determined now that the young girl was the very p. xviiiperson to be used as the test-critic of the Romany mind upon Arnold’s poem, for she was exceptionally intelligent. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Breviter, I have thrown the results of my observations among English gypsies into a very unpretending little volume consisting almost entirely of facts gathered from the Romany, without any theory. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends It is very old, and very few Romany know it.” The Gypsies We rested all the next day at Camp Romany—rested and fished, while three of the more adventurous spirits climbed a near-by mountain. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains That hypochondriacal strain in Borrow’s nature, which Dr. Hake alludes to, perhaps prevented him from sympathising fully with the joyous Romany temper. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest When the publishers of “The Minerva Library” invited me to write a few introductory words to this edition of Borrow’s “Romany Rye,” I hesitated at first about undertaking the task. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" But I am earnestly desirous for my conscience' sake to publish nothing in the Romany which shall not be true and sensible, even as all that you have written is true and sensible. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends For you see that the right word for coals isn’t wongur, as Romanys generally say, but Angára.” The Gypsies Not until we left Camp Romany did we feel that we were really off for the trip. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Afraid; that was the word, I think,” is worthy of Dickens at his very best—worthy of Dickens when he created Rogue Riderhood—but it is hardly Romany, I think. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest “The Romanies call them the Devil’s needles,” said Borrow; “their business is to sew up pretty girl’s eyes.” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" This glamour is to be found in Lavengro and The Romany Rye, to which books we shall come in due course. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Their Romany was full of Russian; their pronunciation puzzled me; they “bit off their words,” and used many in a strange or false sense. The Gypsies And yet that first day out from Romany was not agreeable going. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains But surely you are not a Romany Rye?” Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest Seems to me that the pretty sights what makes a Romany fit to jump out o’ her skin for joy makes this ’ere gorgio want to cry. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" The earliest literary efforts of Borrow in Spain were his two translations of St. Luke's Gospel—the one into Romany, the other into Basque. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I might have spared myself any annoyance from such a source among the Russian Romanys. The Gypsies He's a bloody Romany rogue," Joe Johnson muttered, "to tell me such a tale! The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Strong, however, as is the Romany chi’s passion for fine words, her sentences are rarely complex like some of the sentences Borrow puts into her mouth. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest It is a review of Murray’s new edition of “The Romany Rye.” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Last summer I took him with me to an encampment of Romanies or Gypsies near my home at Oulton in Suffolk. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends This little Romany girl was to me enchanting, being altogether unaffected and graceful. The Gypsies As the Rev. the Romany Rye he might have blazed in an entertaining and becoming manner. George Borrow The Man and His Books This same gypsy girl also illustrated another side of the variously endowed character of the Romany women, ignored, or almost ignored by Borrow—their passion for music. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest And “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye” are going, I see, into lots of new editions. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" I have seen him sitting over my fire in my room at that office for hours, half asleep, and crooning out Romany songs while waiting for my chief.' George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The singing was not the same as it had been; the voices were the same, but the sweet wild charm of the Romany caroling, bird-like, for pleasure was gone. The Gypsies When Borrow had almost finished “The Romany Rye” he went on a visit to his cousins in Cornwall. George Borrow The Man and His Books His “Lavengro” and “Romany Rye” were still allowed by all competent critics to be among the most delightful books in the language. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest “He be’s a good friend to the Romanies,” said the girl in an appeasing tone. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Serjeant Borrow could not understand George with his extraordinary taste for the society of queer people—the wild Irish and the ragged Romanies. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends There was a gypsy family always roaming between Windsor and London, and the first words taught to their youngest child were “Romany rye!” and these it was trained to address to me. The Gypsies He was not a man who wrote about everything; the impulse was lacking and he went on with the furious Appendix to “The Romany Rye.” George Borrow The Man and His Books You were talking of the Scotch, brother; what do you think of a Scotchman finding fault with Romany?” Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 “I think, brother, as I before said, that occasionally you utter a word of common sense; you were talking of the Scotch, brother; what do you think of a Scotchman finding fault with Romany?” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" He would sometimes sing one of his Romany songs, shake his fist at me and look quite wild. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends D, be it observed, very often changes to r in its transfer from Hindoo to Romany. The Gypsies They are never such in “The Bible in Spain,” though they are in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye.” George Borrow The Man and His Books Had a Romany lad got thee with child, Then I had said to thee, poor lass! Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 “What do you mean by smelling a rat?” said I. “I’ll bet a crown,” said the jockey, “that you be the young chap what certain folks call ‘The Romany Rye.’” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" In Lavengro we have only half a book, the whole work, which included what came to be published as The Romany Rye, having been intended to appear in four volumes. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends These poor men, who seemed at first amazed that I should speak to them at all, when I spoke Romany at once called me “brother.” The Gypsies I have no objection to caricature; when it is of a logical or incidental kind I enjoy it, even in “The Romany Rye”; I enjoy, for example, the snoring Wordsworthian, without any prejudice against Wordsworth. George Borrow The Man and His Books Wish to die, indeed! a Romany chal would wish to live for ever.” Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 “Here’s to the Romany Rye; here’s to the sweet master,” said the jockey, dashing the bottle through a pane in so neat a manner that scarcely a particle of glass fell into the room. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" The book was now in two volumes, and we see that the word Romany had dropped an 'm': The Romany Rye: A Sequel to 'Lavengro.' George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I soon found, however, that I knew a great many more gypsy words than did my new friends, and that our English Romany far excels the Russian in copia verborum. The Gypsies But in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye” he is an intruder with a design of turning these books into tracts. George Borrow The Man and His Books You talk like a gorgio—which is the same as talking like a fool; were you a Romany chal you would talk wiser. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 |
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