Packsack

He left his bag, hunkered in the dark and opened the packsack that had been his pillow with fingers too schooled to need light. ❋ Peter DeWolf (2010)

Not just the travelers checks, but three return plane tickets, three tourist visas, my passport, travel journal, notebooks and small packsack – the whole shooting match! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Naively I inquired further, “Might the packsack or papers get turned at the police station?” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Six months after I was born, I was taken by packsack to a remote cabin in north-western Quebec, where my father was doing research as a forest entomologist. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the excitement, I grabbed two travel bags and left the small packsack sitting on the city bus floor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The bag held the important documents although the packsack itself, cheap camera, water bottle and other small personal items were missing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I coatchecked my pleather jacket and packsack, handing it to a slim, 20 year-old, dark-haired man and relaxed myself on a soft bench with a rum cooler to enjoy the amateur singers in our community perform their numbers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My packsack had my laptop and medication inside and in hindsight it was apparently safer to leave my packsack unattended under a table than with these coatchecking thieves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Recommendation: Bull-Pac frame, $169; Selway packsack, $115 (208-798-3298; www. bullpacs.com). ❋ Unknown (2003)

Among the stores in Veasey's packsack was a waxed paper parcel of lard. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

The tongue of fear began to flicker again but he resolutely shut his mind to it and stumbled forward into that sweep of space, his heavy flight boots slipping on rocks and sucking in the muskeg, the straps of the packsack already cutting into his shoulders through the thin cotton jacket. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)

Thrusting his arms through the straps of the packsack, he heaved it and the sleeping bag into position then picked up the rifle and pointed with it to the southwest. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)

It's the far northland that's a callin 'me away, as take I with my packsack to the road. ❋ Unknown (1999)