gripsack

Example Sentences

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So I'll try to find you something in my gripsack.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

One thing, however, he must have, and that was clothes, for in his haste he had come away with a gripsack and nothing more.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar

She packed her ball-gown in a gripsack and lit out of here two days ago, p'inting that way.

From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie

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

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.