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 Alger, Horatio

She packed her ball-gown in a gripsack and lit out of here two days ago, p'inting that way.

From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie

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 Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)

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

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