haversack
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He has one green parakeet feather in his haversack.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2012
And now it has its metaphorical haversack over its brave, small metaphorical shoulders and is trotting off to do some Youth Hostelling in Indonesia without me.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2011
He'd arrive on his bike, his haversack full of groceries, and he'd spend the afternoon with us.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010
Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young mouse rushed headlong back to the nest, rummaged in the haversack and found a stout climbing rope.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
On the end page of W T Palmer's 1939 book, there's an illustration of two exhausted but very contented little penguins, reposing on their haversacks.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018
A handful of spectators watched the Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten days after the battle of the Horse Shoe the army again advanced, the men carrying provisions in their haversacks as before.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by Eggleston, George Cary
With two days’ rations in their haversacks, the men marched until they arrived in front of Yorktown, where they bivouacked on the ground, over which the water was running like a flood.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
Vocabulary lists containing haversack
The American Civil War
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Novel Study: Harriet Tubman, Chapters 11–22
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