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 Holden, Martha Everts
He had a great mind to go upstairs and get his gripsack.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio
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
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 Futrelle, Jacques
"I'll take your gripsack," said the man in shirt sleeves.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
