"Gitano" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Gospel of St. Luke, in the Rommany, or Gitano, or Gipsy language, has been printed at Madrid, under the superintendence of this same gentleman, who himself made the translation for the benefit of the interesting, singular, degraded race of people whose name it bears, and who are very numerous in some parts ...
— A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow • Thomas J. Wise
... our public balls in carnival time. An English missionary, Mr. Borrow, the author of two very interesting works on the Spanish gipsies, whom he undertook to convert on behalf of the Bible Society, declares there is no instance of any gitana showing the smallest weakness for a man not belonging to her own race. The praise he bestows upon their chastity strikes me as being exceedingly exaggerated. In the first place, the great majority are in the position of the ugly woman described by Ovid, "Casta quam nemo rogavit." ...
— Carmen • Prosper Merimee
... embargo, entre los senores comarcanos murmurabase que la hermosa castellana de Veraton[1] no era tan limpia de sangre como bella, y que a pesar de sus trenzas rubias y su tez de alabastro, habia tenido por madre una gitana. Lo de cierto que pudiera haber en estas murmuraciones, nadie pudo nunca decirlo, porque la verdad era que don Dionis tuvo una vida bastante azarosa en su juventud, y despues de combatir largo tiempo bajo ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer |
