gripsack

Example Sentences

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He saw himself fighting and winning from the time when first he had set out with a gripsack to seek a fortune in the wide plains of the West.

From Colorado Jim by Goodchild, George

Next he turned his attention to the gripsack, but that proved to contain only wearing apparel.

From Mark Mason's Victory by Alger, Horatio

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 Holden, Martha Everts

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

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

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