gripsack

Example Sentences

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Frank, who had just come from the railway station, had a gripsack in each hand.

From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.

Then he pointed behind him, and blamed if he didn’t have two trunks, a gripsack and three gun cases.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.

We sprang for the side-holts—my gripsack and I— It dangled—I dangled—we both dangled by.

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb

He had a great mind to go upstairs and get his gripsack.

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