"Gripsack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was a little past midnight—I tracked him to his room, which was four doors from mine in the same hall; then I went back and put on my muddy day-laborer disguise, darkened my complexion, and sat down in my room in the gloom, with a gripsack handy, with a change in it, and my door ajar. For I suspected that the bird would take wing now. In half an hour an old woman passed by, carrying a grip; I caught the familiar whiff, and followed with my grip, for it was Fuller. He left the hotel by a side entrance, and at the corner ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
... would make it a hot country," he remarked at length, "for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle, ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... I have lost my certificate of moral character, written by myself. Bob has lost my gripsack containing my inaugural address." Of course, the misfortune reminded him ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure |
