gripsack

Example Sentences

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Frank, who had just come from the railway station, had a gripsack in each hand.

From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.

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

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

These he placed in a small gripsack which he carefully locked, saying to himself, as he looked around the room with a sigh, “Mike can have the rest.”

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)

We sprang for the side-holts—my gripsack and I— It dangled—I dangled—we both dangled by.

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb