gripsack

Example Sentences

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If a young man with a gripsack hailed me at the corner I was to stop and let him get in; then I was to go on up Fifth Avenue.

From The Diamond Master by Futrelle, Jacques

Saturday morning he walked to the depot with a small gripsack in his hand and bought a ticket for New York.

From Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune by Alger, Horatio

Mr. Wynne had transferred the contents of the gripsack to her, in a cab, on a crowded thoroughfare, right under his nose!

From The Diamond Master by Futrelle, Jacques

He saw himself fighting and winning from the time when first he had set out with a gripsack to seek a fortune in the wide plains of the West.

From Colorado Jim by Goodchild, George

Then he pointed behind him, and blamed if he didn’t have two trunks, a gripsack and three gun cases.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.