Before leaving Springfield Lincoln had prepared his inaugural message with great care, and placed it in a "gripsack" for transportation to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him] Reference

Bob has lost my gripsack containing my inaugural address.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The same evening the two men arrived, each carrying his gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chennai] Reference

Churchill dived and groped in three feet of water for the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

"Hadn't you better take a look at it?" he suggested, nodding his head at the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

His mind was made up that if he missed the Athenian it would be the fault of the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

"It is time to go," I said to myself; and descending, I hurried to my hotel and packed a gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference

He saw himself fighting and winning from the time when first he had set out with a gripsack to seek a fortune in the wide plains of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

We sprang for the side-holts-my gripsack and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference

Just jump on that bicycle, and I'll take the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience] Reference

As she emptied my gripsack, I heard her utter a half-shriek of alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference

"No, sir," answered Walter politely, removing his gripsack from the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walter Sherwood's Probation] Reference

He put his gripsack on the floor at his feet, but held the casket in his lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cast Upon the Breakers] Reference

Keogh gazed on him sadly, but without rancour, and began to pack his gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

Churchill crawled in on the wagon-bed and slept, the gripsack still on his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Face] Reference

I hope you will pack your gripsack and start home immediately upon receipt of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

A boy of sixteen, with a small gripsack in his hand, trudged along the country road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience] Reference

That night I wandered about New York with a gripsack that had only a linen duster and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of an American] Reference

Page 434 gripsack in hand, visit every civilized and uncivilized country on the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference

As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Face] Reference

"Hadn't you better take a look at it?" he suggested, nodding his head at the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Face] Reference

He had in his gripsack two manuscript novels of the adventures in Picardy of one Gaston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

It's no joke walking a dozen miles under a hot sun, with a heavy gripsack in your hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven From Home] Reference

"Had n't you better take a look at it?" he suggested, nodding his head at the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

Page 295 with a heavy military cloak, and carrying a gripsack and newspaper in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry : an autobiography,] Reference

Churchill, such being his nature that he volunteered before he thought of Bondell's gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

He had his hat on, and had the air of just having let himself in; his gripsack stood at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference

The finding of the bank book partially consoled Carl for the loss of his pocketbook and gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience] Reference

The first time this happened, Churchill dived and groped in three feet of water for the gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Face] Reference

Where in the world are you going with that gripsack? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven From Home] Reference

Are you sure, Miss Vance, you won't be incommoded by my gripsack? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven From Home] Reference

"Yes, sir; Carl only took away a little underclothing in a gripsack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven From Home] Reference

He carried that in his hands, but let the servant carry up the gripsack. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cast Upon the Breakers] Reference

"for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle, don't you think?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

I will put you and your gripsack in with her, and I'll take to my bicycle again. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven From Home] Reference

You're leavin '-- you won't have time to git your gripsack now, you can write for it! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

She packed her ball-gown in a gripsack and lit out of here two days ago, p’inting that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference