gripsack

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Bidding the conductor wait he hastened to his car, called for his gripsack, gave his assistant a volley of orders, and boarded a Pullman.

From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)

I had thought that traveling up and down the country with gripsack in hand was hard enough; but it is child's play to hand-shaking and hob-nobbing with duchesses and countesses.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

Andy sat down on the sofa and placed his gripsack in front of him.

From Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio

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

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