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
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
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
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 A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour
Andy sat down on the sofa and placed his gripsack in front of him.
From Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger