gripsack
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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
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
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
"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 Futrelle, Jacques
"I'll take your gripsack," said the man in shirt sleeves.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio
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