gripsack

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

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