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Example sentences for "gripsack"

Lexicographically close words:
gripped; gripper; gripping; grippit; grips; gris; grisaille; grise; grisette; grisettes
  1. A boy of sixteen, with a small gripsack in his hand, trudged along the country road.

  2. The gripsack is all I can very well manage.

  3. I will put you and your gripsack in with her, and I'll take to my bicycle again.

  4. I will rest here for a little while," he said to himself, and suiting the action to the word, threw down his gripsack and flung himself on the turf.

  5. He deposited his gripsack therein, and then took a seat on deck, meaning to enjoy as long as possible the delightful scenery for which the Hudson is celebrated.

  6. It's no joke walking a dozen miles under a hot sun, with a heavy gripsack in your hand.

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

  8. On Monday morning Andy stood on the platform of the railroad station with a good-sized gripsack in his hand.

  9. 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.

  10. Burns wanted to put the gripsack on another animal, but Churchill held on to it, carrying it on his saddle-pommel.

  11. By the time Long Lake was reached, however, he had recovered from his sleepiness; and at Deep Lake he resigned the gripsack to Burns.

  12. To cap it, the mule blundered off the trail and fell, throwing rider and gripsack out upon the rocks.

  13. Churchill crawled in on the wagon-bed and slept, the gripsack still on his back.

  14. Churchill took the gripsack and looked into it.

  15. Mr. Wynne had transferred the contents of the gripsack to her, in a cab, on a crowded thoroughfare, right under his nose!

  16. The guy with the gripsack caught us first crack out of the box.

  17. If a young man with a gripsack hailed me at the corner I was to stop and let him get in; then I was to go on up Fifth Avenue.

  18. Upon the return of my father and sister, the gripsack sounded for dinner; when four officers on duty entering, desired, as their posts, to have the serving up of the dishes.

  19. He advised to send expresses with the king's gripsack to such places as had lately submitted, and to such as were about it, to put a stop to them.

  20. No, no," says Quilly, "the gripsack has not sounded.

  21. Oh," says Quilly, "you will hear the gripsack presently.

  22. The gripsack which he carried grew strangely heavy, and he felt faint and weary.

  23. He gave John's hand a mighty grasp and took his gripsack from him.

  24. The next morning he settled his hotel bill, took his gripsack in his hand, and walked over to his new boarding-house.

  25. No, sir," answered Walter politely, removing his gripsack from the seat.

  26. Sweetwater had just come to town,--this was evident from the gripsack he had set down in a corner on entering, also from a certain tousled appearance which bespoke hasty rising and but few facilities for proper attention to his person.

  27. McMurdo picked up his leather gripsack and was about to start off into the darkness, when one of the miners accosted him.

  28. Burns wanted to put the gripsack on another animal, but Churchill held on to it, carrying it on his saddle- pommel.

  29. It's in his safe--a small gripsack of mine.

  30. He was just leaving the house the next morning, gripsack in hand, when on the steps he met Louis Wheeler, his acquaintance of the train.

  31. Here the depot carriage appeared in the street outside and Rodney with his gripsack in one hand and the precious casket in the other, climbed to a seat beside the driver.

  32. He put his gripsack on the floor at his feet, but held the casket in his lap.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gripsack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.