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
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
"Where are you going?" he asked, abruptly, with a glance at the gripsack.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger
I went right straight to my room, packed up my "gripsack" and went to the proprietor for a settlement.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo
With certain minor omissions he told of the cab ride to Sixty-seventh Street, the trip across to a downtown car, and, as a matter of convincing circumstantial detail, added the incident of the empty gripsack.
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
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