They love to lie along the banks a few feet from the shore, where, concealed in the sand, they can dart out upon and seize their prey in their enormous 'gripsack'mouths. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
Before leaving Springfield Lincoln had prepared his inaugural message with great care, and placed it in a "gripsack" for transportation to ❋ Unknown (1878)
He tried to stand up, but failed, sprawling out on the deck, hanging on to the gripsack, and delivering his message. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His mind was made up that if he missed the Athenian it would be the fault of the gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Churchill crawled in on the wagon-bed and slept, the gripsack still on his back. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Hadn't you better take a look at it?" he suggested, nodding his head at the gripsack ❋ Unknown (2010)
To cap it, the mule blundered off the trail and fell, throwing rider and gripsack out upon the rocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Burns wanted to put the gripsack on another animal, but Churchill held on to it, carrying it on his saddle-pommel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not that it was an easy way, however, in the best of places; but it became a really possible trail, along which he could have made good time if he had not been worn out, if he had had light with which to pick his steps, and if it had not been for Bondell's gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By the time Long Lake was reached, however, he had recovered from his sleepiness; and at Deep Lake he resigned the gripsack to Burns. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was a very painful trot, but he clenched his teeth and kept on, forgetting his pain most of the time in the fervent heat with which he regarded the gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Churchill dived and groped in three feet of water for the gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Among them was Churchill, such being his nature that he volunteered before he thought of Bondell's gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Oh, thanks, old man; it was good of you to bring it out," Bondell said when he received the gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At Bondell's home in Seattle he delivers safe and sound the gripsack he has wrestled from Dawson to Dyea. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Fred Churchill has been entrusted with Louis Bondell's stout leather gripsack containing forty pounds of something and is asked to "bring it out" (out of the Klondike, that is) when Churchill departs for the states. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"I thank you," said McMurdo, and shaking hands with his new acquaintance he plodded, gripsack in hand, up the path which led to the dwelling house, at the door of which he gave a resounding knock. ❋ Unknown (2010)
McMurdo picked up his leather gripsack and was about to start off into the darkness, when one of the miners accosted him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The same evening the two men arrived, each carrying his gripsack. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When the teacher said "gripsack", some students [cracked up] since it [sounded] like balls and often some kids like to grab their own balls since they its [itchy]. ❋ Alternative Legend (2007)
Mike: Hey, could I use your [gripsack]?
Jason: Sure, man. [Just don't] get the [powder] all over your table. ❋ Buttered Quayle (2020)
