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

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

So I'll try to find you something in my gripsack.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

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)

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 Dunne, Finley Peter