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 Ida Husted Harper
Then he pointed behind him, and blamed if he didn’t have two trunks, a gripsack and three gun cases.
From The Orphan by Clarence E. Mulford
He jumped to the ground, pulled out first his overcoat and gripsack, fortunately unharmed, then the paper parcels of oatmeal and hominy, sticky and dripping.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
Bidding the conductor wait he hastened to his car, called for his gripsack, gave his assistant a volley of orders, and boarded a Pullman.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
I grasped my bundle and handed Paragot's dilapidated canvas gripsack to the patronne.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
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