gripsack
Example Sentences
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"I'll take your gripsack," said the man in shirt sleeves.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger
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
"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
He had a great mind to go upstairs and get his gripsack.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger