gripsack

Example Sentences

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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

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.

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

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

After he had washed his face and hands he opened his gripsack and took out his brush and comb, which he placed on a tiny bureau in one corner of the room.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

I grasped my bundle and handed Paragot's dilapidated canvas gripsack to the patronne.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John