gripsack
Example Sentences
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He had a great mind to go upstairs and get his gripsack.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger
With certain minor omissions he told of the cab ride to Sixty-seventh Street, the trip across to a downtown car, and, as a matter of convincing circumstantial detail, added the incident of the empty gripsack.
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
And just then I spied a wizened little mite of a woman trotting by, carrying a gripsack bigger than herself.
From A String of Amber Beads by Martha Everts Holden
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 Horatio Alger
Bidding the conductor wait he hastened to his car, called for his gripsack, gave his assistant a volley of orders, and boarded a Pullman.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
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