gripsack
Example Sentences
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I went right straight to my room, packed up my "gripsack" and went to the proprietor for a settlement.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.
He had a great mind to go upstairs and get his gripsack.
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
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 Futrelle, Jacques
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
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