gripsack
Example Sentences
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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
I grasped my bundle and handed Paragot's dilapidated canvas gripsack to the patronne.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
One thing, however, he must have, and that was clothes, for in his haste he had come away with a gripsack and nothing more.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
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
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