He was a portly young German, and he stood on the lawn, with a battered old carpetbag between his feet, while he blew at a wheezy flute with such vigor and vim that his eyes threatened to pop out of his head.
With a howl, Hans flung the carpetbag and the flute straight up into the air.
With a whoop of joy, he grabbed up his carpetbag and started for the Vermonter.
Then the carpetbag came down, struck Hans on the head and knocked him to a sitting position on the grass.
And before a hand could be raised to prevent him, he had emptied the contents of the carpetbag upon the table.
I don't pack my carpetbagfor a year yet, and we can do a lot of work in that time.
On Monday morning, just before the morning train was to start, Andrew appeared on the platform of the modest village depot with a small carpetbag in his hand, lent him by the Misses Grant.
By this time Andy was in the house, holding his cap in one hand, and his carpetbag in the other.
After the fall of the carpetbag governments, illegal means were often used to keep negroes from the polls and prevent "negro domination" in these states.
The inauguration of Hayes was followed by the recall of United States troops from the South, and the downfall of carpetbag governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.
Johnson was succeeded by Grant, in whose administration the remaining Southern states were readmitted to the Union; but the condition of the South, under carpetbag government, became worse than ever, and led to the passage of the Force Act.
When their performance was about half over the belated brother reached the hall and rushed frantically down the aisle, with carpetbag in hand, leaped upon the stage, and in full view of the audience proceeded to kiss the entire tribe.
The state was readmitted to representation in July 1870, after the failure of a strong effort to extend for two years the carpetbag government of the state.
Many of the Negroes who attained public office showed themselves apt pupils of theircarpetbag masters but were seldom permitted to appropriate a large share of the plunder.
When the carpetbag and Negro governments came in, the policy was continued but without proper safeguards.
Hayes was to be President; the South, with the Negro, was to be left to the whites; there would be no further military aid to carpetbag governments.
A glance at Ben's carpetbag indicated that he had come in answer to the advertisement, and he was received very graciously.
Ben had only been in New York twice before, but he happened to know his way to Nassau Street, and went there at once, with his carpetbag in his hand.
December, Miss Lydia turned the key in her front door and, with her carpetbag and bandbox, took the morning stage for Mercer.
We merely knew that on a rainy December day (this was about eight months after William had turned tail) she was seen to get into the Mercer stage, carrying a carpetbag in one hand and a bandbox in the other.
Hampton, under whose leadership the carpetbag government had been overthrown, had been a popular idol.
Not all of this increase was due to carpetbag government.
In 1873, the carpetbag government attempted to fund these bonds at twenty-five cents on the dollar.
The public mind was in such a state of frenzied uneasiness, the result of carpetbag robbery and recklessness, that the people would listen to no remedy except passionate defiance and denunciation.
The carpetbag government pardoned and turned loose upon society the worst criminals.
His gait was a little awkward, in spite of the sponge-rubber floor, because of the huge flowered carpetbaghe was carrying.
He lifted the carpetbag and sat it down on the lab table.
Its men were among the earliest to volunteer for service in the Confederate armies and latest to retire from that service; they were also amongst the earliest to organize resistance to carpetbag rule and to throw off the yoke.
In 1870 the carpetbag government in Mississippi reached the zenith of its power, and its baleful influence pervaded every nook and corner of the state.
I stood with my shawl andcarpetbag in hand, gazing doubtingly on the vehicle.
The shout told the intruder that his game was up, and, carpetbag in hand, he started to run away.
Holding her with one hand, he continued to fill his carpetbag with the other.
By the closet was a burly negro, filling a carpetbagwith silverware!
I gave him my carpetbag to carry this morning, and he ran away with it.
The boy shouldered the carpetbag and started in advance, Robert following.
In these he was aided by Mrs. Morgan, who sent on board, without his knowledge, a trunk containing a complete outfit, considerably better than the contents of the humble carpetbag he had brought from home.
You must see that in the painful processes of reconstructing us the carpetbag had its uses.
Yes," said the major thoughtfully, "it would take a wider garment of love to cover a man with a carpetbag in his hand than a soldier in a Yankee uniform.
Then as David appeared laden with the lost carpetbag and a huge box of chocolates, he waved him to a chair, and took up his speech again.
Her own nightdress had been left in the time-worn carpetbag that Uncle David had forgotten to take out of the "handsome cab.
She wants the doll that David left in that carpetbag of hers he forgot to take out of the 'Handsome cab.
The valise and the little carpetbag she carried downstairs and out on to the front steps.
The stage that came for Aunt Olivia dropped the little carpetbagand Rebecca Mary at the minister's.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpetbag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
