gripsack
Example Sentences
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So I'll try to find you something in my gripsack.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
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
They found things in it similar to those found in Jack's gripsack, with the exception of a book which Julian had purchased to read on his journey, the leaves of which were uncut.
From The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon
Mr. Wynne had transferred the contents of the gripsack to her, in a cab, on a crowded thoroughfare, right under his nose!
From The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle
He saw himself fighting and winning from the time when first he had set out with a gripsack to seek a fortune in the wide plains of the West.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
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