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Definition of Gripsacks
1. gripsack [n] - See also: gripsack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gripsacks
Literary usage of Gripsacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the by Booker T. Washington (1903)
"They are people who live in their gripsacks. They are gripsack leaders. If their
gripsacks are in Montgomery to-night, there is their home. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Trunks and gripsacks were neatly packed and good-byes had been duly bidden, and
here I was without any destination. In this perplexity a letter was handed ..."
3. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"... and gripsacks with the assets and securities of the road, Drew, Gould, Fisk,
and their confidants in iniquity fled headlong out of the company's offices ..."
4. American Druggist (1893)
"... and to encourage a more friendly and social feeling between the wholesale
houses, the retailers and the men who carry samples and prices in gripsacks. ..."
5. Constitutional History of the United States from Their Declaration of by George Ticknor Curtis (1896)
"... men whe had come from the North, and bringing all their worldly goods in
gripsacks or "carpet-bags. ..."
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