gripsack
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They found things in it similar to those found in Jack's gripsack, with the exception of a book which Julian had purchased to read on his journey, the leaves of which were uncut.
From The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon
"Did any one see the boy go out with his gripsack?" he asked, as he returned.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger
"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 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 Ida Husted Harper
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
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