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 Burt L. Standish
Whin, lo an' behold, down th' sthreet comes a ma-an fr'm th' counthry,—a lawyer fr'm Ohio, with a gripsack in his hand.
From Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Finley Peter Dunne
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 George Goodchild
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
"That empty gripsack, man—when he left here he carried millions—I mean a great quantity of diamonds in it."
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
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