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
"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
Mr. Wynne had transferred the contents of the gripsack to her, in a cab, on a crowded thoroughfare, right under his nose!
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
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
If a young man with a gripsack hailed me at the corner I was to stop and let him get in; then I was to go on up Fifth Avenue.
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
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