gripsack

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These he placed in a small gripsack which he carefully locked, saying to himself, as he looked around the room with a sigh, “Mike can have the rest.”

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)

"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 Futrelle, Jacques

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 Futrelle, Jacques

"Did any one see the boy go out with his gripsack?" he asked, as he returned.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

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 Futrelle, Jacques