How To Use Haversack In A Sentence
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The flow of the river started taking them downstream, so I dropped the haversacks, ran down the riverside starkers, dived into the river and caught our clothes.
John Keay
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At that he stepped out to his haversack, and on his return he poured out some seven thimblesful of saccharine into a hand quite cheerfully extended.
My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,
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Wearing wool uniforms and carrying haversacks and rifles that can weigh up to 30 pounds, they will march for miles under an oftentimes blazing summer sun.
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The explosive was kept in a blue and red "haversack", he said.
The Times of India
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He was now wearing a blue baseball cap and carrying a blue haversack.
THE BOOK LADY
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If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
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The explosive was kept in a blue and red "haversack", he said. comment Note: By posting your comments here you agree to the
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They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear.
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To him it was sheer romance to parade through town with a tin haversack of carbons for the arc-lights, familiarly lowering the high-hung mysterious lamps, while his plodding acquaintances "clerked" in stores on Saturdays, or tended furnaces.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
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They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear.
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She could see her haversack, lying in a dayglow heap amongst the tangled seaweed, fifty yards along the tide line.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
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Got my haversack lined with jaconet and filled with cut-dressings, very convenient, as you have both hands free.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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Three or four of the party had ventured out, and we had secured a large sackful, after which we all retired to the tent, except one of our number, who, having a lady-love in Cardwell with an inordinate affection for shell-fish, lingered to fill a haversack for his 'inamorata'.
Australian Search Party
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There was no Goretex, waterproof poncho or other warm-fuzzy gear in GI Joe's haversack.
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His shoulders ached from hauling the haversack filled with things unnecessary; his right arm felt strained from the weight of that rifle.
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Some in awful agony, some painlessly but all unmurmuringly - I with more luck than I deserved escaped with a few bullets through my helmet and haversack.
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I set it aside and extract a cloth bag, like a small haversack.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Haver is the Yorkshire dialect word for oats from which the cakes were made and could also be the origin of the word haversack, part of a soldier's equipment used for carrying a ration of oatmeal.
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Putting the haversack onto her shoulders, she walked briskly down the street, turning the first corner she saw.
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`Look, go tell your mother where we're off to, while I fetch a haversack.
THE QUEST FOR K
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The cauldron had probably contained some perishable material such as grain, which had decayed and been replaced by sand from the grave fill, and the lamb chops and the bronze bowl had originally been in some kind of haversack or kit bag, along with some other perishable food perhaps bread or fruit?
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She'd packed beef sandwiches for lunch, tomato sandwiches for tea and she put them in a haversack which I carried.
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The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say.
Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
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On the street in front of my present home, twenty thousand Yankee soldiers marched down the Old Spanish Trail in pursuit of General Alfred Mouton and his boys in butternut, their haversacks stuffed with loot, their wounds from a dozen firefights still green, their lust for revenge unsated.
The Glass Rainbow
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She stuck her head out of the stall to see Arlan in a sweeping black cloak, a haversack over his shoulder, a scowl on his face.
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Each soldier usually started a movement with three days of food, pre-cooked, in his haversack.
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They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear.
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All the food he had left in his haversack was a cup of cornmeal, so he drew together sticks to make a fire for cooking mush.
Cold Mountain
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She had a kind of haversack, all bejeweled like the rest of her, and she took from it a considerable quantity of very thin transparent membrane, resembling plass.
The Golden Torc
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He reached into his haversack, broke off a small bit of the army's version of a cracker, put it in his mouth and began to chew.
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In the haversack is a pannikin with a hinged handle that may be used as a saucepan.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
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The next morning I waited until Marc went out and then I used mam's phone to call the police and grass Marc for the twenty grams of cocaine he had stashed in a haversack under the stairs.
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All I had in my haversack was a single hard biscuit, after munching which I lay down upon the ground and fell instantly asleep.
My Lady of Doubt
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Yuen picked up his haversack and slung it between his shoulders, each strap resting on each blade.
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He set out with few possessions - just a haversack, a pair of shorts and a couple of jumpers.
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Over one shoulder he carried a haversack full of food.
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But Clem, after looking round suspiciously among the litter of waterproofs, walking-sticks, nets, rods, and golf-clubs, took down Vin's fishing haversack from a hook on the wall.
Mrs. Miniver
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Each man had a blanket slung over the left shoulder, and carried a fair-leather bag or haversack.
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The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say.
Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
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His pack, haversack, rifle, cartridge box and sword scabbard bounced and banged as he ran.
Sharpe's Havoc
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She could see her haversack, lying in a dayglow heap amongst the tangled seaweed, fifty yards along the tide line.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE