gripsack

Example Sentences

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"Where are you going?" he asked, abruptly, with a glance at the gripsack.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

After he had washed his face and hands he opened his gripsack and took out his brush and comb, which he placed on a tiny bureau in one corner of the room.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

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.

I had thought that traveling up and down the country with gripsack in hand was hard enough; but it is child's play to hand-shaking and hob-nobbing with duchesses and countesses.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

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