The highway was filled with those coming and going from town; merchants, farmers with their wares, butchers, travelling artisans, tinkers, peddlers, Gypsies, great ladies on horseback or in coaches, who stared at Pocahontas, and gentlemen who questioned the servants about her.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
Sir Henry became again the prey of mystery and melancholy, till the arrival of some Gypsies in those parts; with them he had several times been seen to converse, and, notwithstanding the vigilance of his mother, who, suspecting his intention, had appointed several of the domestics to watch him, he again, about two months since, eloped, and as it was supposed, with those itinerant outcasts!
"The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I"
Sophia Reeve
Except for the absolute straightness of the black hair, these men almost exactly resemble the Gypsies as seen in Europe; they are very like them too in many habits of mind and life-equally fond of red and yellow handkerchiefs for neck-wear for the men or head-gear for the women.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash