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
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
He had his hat on, and had the air of just having let himself in; his gripsack stood at his feet.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
When you told me, Mr. Latham, that the gripsack had contained diamonds when Mr. Wynne left here I knew instantly how he got rid of them.
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
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