gripsack

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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 Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)

"Where are you going?" he asked, abruptly, with a glance at the gripsack.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

"I'll take your gripsack," said the man in shirt sleeves.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

On Monday morning Andy stood on the platform of the railroad station with a good-sized gripsack in his hand.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

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