gripsack
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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
I grasped my bundle and handed Paragot's dilapidated canvas gripsack to the patronne.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John
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)
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.
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