My clothes were soaked in perspiration, but I shouldered my knapsack with alacrity, and we began the descent.
In an arcade I entered a shop for sporting-equipment, leaving Tynsdale to wait outside with Kent, and obtained two military water-bottles and an extremely shoddy knapsack at an exorbitant price.
I eased myself of my knapsack and rested for ten minutes, eating some biscuits and chocolate, which made me more thirsty than ever.
I had a water-bottle and a knapsack, and Kent obtained another knapsack in camp.
The party of boys walked along the road very pleasantly together, each one with his knapsack on his back and his pikestaff in his hand.
There was a boy with a knapsack on his back standing by the window, looking out.
He dismounted, swung his knapsack on his back, and handed the reins of the mule to Hippolyte, who sat, still uncertain.
There was no way for him to take his father's clothes, but the boy opened the larger knapsackand took all the papers and documents.
He turned to the table to put into his knapsack the couple of changes of clothing he had brought.
Archie had stocked his knapsack with some food from the old headquarters in the town, so that he felt safe for a few days, at any rate.
He secured a knapsack from the commissary officer, and in this he placed what few belongings he wanted to take with him, together with his note-books and some provisions for the trip.
Leonard dropped his knapsack on the floor, and looked around him wistfully.
I think we have put everything into the knapsack that he can possibly want," said good Mrs. Riccabocca, musingly.
It was true I had come some miles on foot, and with a knapsack on my shoulder, so that the peasant was fully warranted in his reception of me.
With my knapsack on my back, I then ascended the vale of Moffat.
I was quite exhausted, and lay down two or three times, resolving to have a good long rest and sleep on the grass, with my knapsack for a pillow; but the Brownie came in the shape of rain, and woke me up again.
They had calculated that the increased supplies in David's knapsack would furnish them with supper, leaving a comfortable allowance for breakfast the next day.
Henri had to put in a sad word, owing to the depletion of the food store--the knapsack contained less than two days' rations for one man.
It occurred to the captain to inspect the knapsack upon which his head had been pillowed.
Henri, balanced by Schneider's boots thonged over one shoulder and theknapsack swinging from the other, made a dash for the slender bridge.
Each soldier carries a knapsack about ten kwan[31] in weight, and has only one bottleful of water to drink.
He was clad in the uniform of a soldier, with a wooden sword and gun, a hat decorated with crane-feathers, a canteen at his side, and a knapsack on his back.
When I was returning from college last year, per pedes apostolorum, for my money had given out, and my knapsack was empty.
Finally he arose to his feet and picked up a knapsack and a long, sharp-pointed spear.
He promptly took up hisknapsack and spear and faced about, posed to assume the part of a guide.
Throwing his knapsackonce more on his back, John Ardworth went resolutely on to the great vortex.
He slipped his knapsack to the ground, and the Scotch terrier sank upon it, and curled himself up into a ball.
He only asked two Batzen for carrying my knapsack for two hours.
From Martigny I travelled for the first time in my life literally on foot, and as I found the guides too dear I went on quite alone, and started with my cloak and knapsack on my shoulders.
When I arrived by the diligence yesterday at Altstetten, in freezing cold, like a day in December, I found that there was no carriage road to Tourgen, to which place I had unluckily sent on my cloak and knapsack on the last fine day.
My knapsack was not very heavy, for it contained scarcely anything but Goethe's poems, and three shirts; so we packed ourselves into a hired carriage, and drove through the grotto of Posilippo to Pozzuoli.
Nevertheless he had a fretful desire to escape from the discomposing society of a lord; he fixed his knapsack and began to saunter.
His master gave him his keys, and despatched him into the town to purchase a knapsack or bag for the outfit of a jolly beggar.
It was a perilous undertaking for him, for the Cossacks were still riding about, and he showed me with pride the place where a stray bullet had perforated his knapsack during the search.
Where the discarded knapsack has rubbed for weeks against his shoulder-blades the jacket and shirt are fretted away, leaving his skin exposed.
The high square knapsack which every English foot-soldier carries, and his shako, and its tuft, outline themselves against the dim light as the ranks stand awaiting the shock.
Therefore, in general, an ordinary knapsack will answer very well for packs up to say thirty pounds.
A tumpline is attached to the top of the knapsack straps.
With the full conviction of a foreigner that he was about to be cheated, he had his cloak shifted to the opposite side of the coach, and the knapsack placed on the roof.
We took back upon our hips and neck the knapsack which had the shape and the weight of a yoke, which every minute that falls on it weighs down more dourly.
I had neither knapsack nor pouches, and I wrapped myself in my blanket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knapsack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baggage; luggage; pack
