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  • If head-to-toe leopard seems a bit too Big Cat Diary to appeal, then a waterproof rucksack or bumbag in the same print are an easy way to add a distinctive touch to a more classic outfit. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • He says the briefcase is impractical: A lot of other people in our office use rucksacks because they cycle to work. Briefcases are the new suspenders | clusterflock
  • I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
  • In what was said to be a signed confession he admitted carrying the rucksack containing explosives but insisted he never intended to kill anyone.
  • Full of comments about how awful our heavy rucksacks had been. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags. Times, Sunday Times
  • He needs them to replace the rucksack - which contains a bag of fluid sending vital nutrients straight to his heart. The Sun
  • No bags, rucksacks, backpacks or holdalls more than eight inches square.
  • So we pack a picnic and a blanket in a small rucksack and head off into the hills.
  • He dumped a heavy rucksack on the floor and stuck his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
  • The RFU has requested spectators not to bring large bags or rucksacks and advised them to arrive earlier than usual to allow for the enhanced checks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rucksack has a small padlock. Times, Sunday Times
  • Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • A flush of relief is coursing around my body and I am bear-hugging Penny's rucksack in front of me.
  • From tiny rucksacks through sequinned glamour bags to big mummy handbags, it's very rare to see a woman without one.
  • ‘I think knowledge is a good thing,’ she says, fruitlessly rummaging for cigarettes in a trendy looking rucksack.
  • I came to the city centre with one hold-all and a small bag, and went away with two hold-alls, three bags and two rucksacks!
  • ‘It will be their summer in August, but we've been told to take fleeces as well as swimming costumes, and all in a small rucksack,’ she said.
  • Last May they started training again, yomping up hills carrying loaded rucksacks.
  • They removed prepacked rucksacks and backpacks, tents and laptop computers. The Thieves of Darkness
  • As A-level results arrive, 18-year-olds all over Britain are packing their rucksacks ready for a year of adventure before settling down to university.
  • Weiss continues in the letter, I put all Bob's negatives in a rucksack and bicycled it to Bordeaux to try to get it on a ship to Mexico. ARTINFO: Unpacking the "Mexican Suitcase": The Mystery of Robert Capa's Long-Lost War Trove
  • And it is certain that to be off upon a journey with a rucksack strapped upon you at an hour when the butcher boy takes down his shutters is a high pleasure. Chimney-Pot Papers
  • He is wearing an anorak and carrying a rucksack and looks all set for a hike in the rain. Times, Sunday Times
  • Messner was able to move so quickly because he climbed alone, alpine-style — meaning he took only a rucksack. Brotherhood of the Mountain
  • In his introduction to this collection, a former Rolling Stone editor Paul Scanlon writes about how the young Thompson used to enter their San-Francisco-based office "with a bowlegged quickstep, making the zigzagging seriocomic, dramatic entrance," then plop down his leather rucksack while wordlessly removing the contents, which "usually included something edible, like a grapefruit, a carton of Dunhills, a large police flashlight, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a can of liquid Mace. Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
  • You really can't hump 50 lb rucksacks with a back problem, can you?
  • Her body was then wrapped in bin liners, shoved into a makeshift bag stitched from Carol's pinafore dress and a rucksack.
  • Three and a half months worth of dust, dirt and sand needs to be shaken from our tents, the van and rucksacks.
  • In my rucksack were several film cans filled with the carefully labelled pips of wild apples, and squirrel-stashes of walnuts also destined to be sown later in my Suffolk garden, as a living reminder of the wild fruit forests I had encountered on my travels. Wildwood
  • He was carrying a small rucksack and a small green carrier bag.
  • I just didn't want to seem like a plonker who had just wasted his time carrying a rucksack full of water unnecessarily.
  • Bread gets bashed in a rucksack, but muffins and bagels survive well: cinnamon ones are good.
  • Some might say rucksacks only belong on a schoolgirl. Times, Sunday Times
  • Outdoor Geek – the kind of hiker that drinks from a camel back in his rucksack while tracing his steps with a handheld GPS EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Get your geek on
  • Gone were the rucksacked school kids, chattering and chasing around the old ladies who hobbled along almost in slow motion with yappy dogs and hair in a bun and little trolleys full of bread.
  • I like to grab my 3wt orvis superfine, rucksack with camelback and hit up the mountain streams for brookies. My idea of a perfect fishing trip is to get a lawn chair set up your rod put a slip bobber on and tip it with a worm.
  • The bear gave up and ambled back to the rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning we awoke to overcast skies and a light snowfall, but I was too excited about the challenge of the day to be bothered by the weather, as we geared up with our ski suits, gaiters, rucksacks and the all important snowshoes.
  • Burdened by an elephantine rucksack, his pink skin charred to a luscious red by the sun, and trying to communicate with a guide whose accent is, well, undecipherable; his hopelessness and frustration is palpable.
  • The tents were down, and the soldiers were packing them into their rucksacks to be slung over their backs.
  • With an "Ah. Here you are," she dropped her trumpet case onto the floor along with a weighty rucksack, and she went to the cooker where Alfie the family's Alsatian mix was having alengthy post-party lie in on his blanket. A Traitor to Memory
  • I've also eschewed all those those natty cycling rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Baildon Ladies Circle will hand over kagouls, rucksacks and other equipment to the home on Owlet Road, after raising £100 with sponsored knit-ins, a jumble sale and toy sale.
  • Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • After he had moved on to other news, Ara hitched her rucksack higher on her back, prepared to go to her glade.
  • Unfortunately, with the inclement weather, the fantasy of foxy local fauna out in boots and rucksacks wasn't realised.
  • I was struggling to get out of the pub with my rucksack, when I was pressed against someone who looked vaguely familiar.
  • Rucksacks and running shoes rub, turning burns into sores.
  • He left carrying just a rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another tip with regards to this documentation is to pack it somewhere where you can access it easily, but which is secure, say in an inside zip pocket of your rucksack.
  • On his back were a parachute and 100-pound rucksack crammed with clothes, food, medical gear and other stuff.
  • After exactly two decades, Dr Melvyn Kershaw has packed up his rucksack and left the comprehensive whose stewardship has earned him the title secondary school headteacher of the year. Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk
  • Holly carries a great freight of metaphor in his rucksack.
  • her rucksack bobbed gently on her back
  • On the other side, the backpackers, tanned and fit, casually shoulder their rucksacks and adjust their sunglasses.
  • Use a weatherproof rucksack to carry your camera and lenses around in.
  • If you like gizmos, there is no limit to the gadgets you can buy, but your rucksack will be extremely heavy.
  • Pru had brought three suitcases, a tackle bag and a rucksack in addition to two carrier bags.
  • Trekking is not just about carrying a rucksack and wandering around the mountains.
  • I took the rucksack off and managed to unzip the top pocket with one hand to get the penknife out.
  • Police are appealing for help to find the small blue or green rucksack that she used to carry her chef's whites. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trend towards utility has continued, and most modern armed forces now use rucksack-type packs - ‘bergens’ - and pouches made of light and robust man-made fabrics.
  • A small rucksack is also a good idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • Criminals go to extraordinary lengths to steal from some of the companies, especially precious metals firms where a rucksack full of loot can fetch up to £50,000.
  • When Hetty gets the good news, she packs a rucksack full of books and heads for Wordsworth country to escape the oppressive atmosphere at home.
  • He had a large rucksack on.
  • I've lost count of the number of tube travellers I've seen laden with both tiny handbag and big rucksack, or huge holdall and little shoulder bag.
  • He hurried to his own rucksack, where he pulled out a razor.
  • He left his home with six bottles in his rucksack filled with paraffin, caustic soda and nails. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, no bags, rucksacks & backpacks larger than eight inches square will be allowed beyond the ticketing and security checkpoints or into the grounds of the Belfry.
  • To my surprise it's a young boy with a freckled, eager face and brown hair styled to flop over one eye, wearing black, carrying a rucksack and a bag.
  • Most of the soldiers slept, but 40 minutes before they reached the drop zone they were on their feet strapping their heavy rucksacks, filled with rations, water, ammunition and their weapons onto clips on their webbing.
  • She found a small hollow, pulled out her sleeping bag, used the rucksack as a pillow and tried to get some sleep.
  • As vespers drew to a close the pilgrims began to file quietly out and I was left alone at the back of the church with my rucksack.
  • Police released CCTV footage of the four men, who were carrying large rucksacks, in a bid to eliminate them from the inquiry.
  • Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied.
  • She swung the rucksack onto her back.
  • Cops found burnt clothes, a fuel canister, a rucksack and notes in the car park. The Sun
  • He thinks his day rucksack saved his life, protecting his spine and the back of his neck during the fall.
  • Last May they started training again, yomping up hills carrying loaded rucksacks.
  • Some might say rucksacks only belong on a schoolgirl. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's carrying a rucksack and all these little plastic bags and a penknife.
  • Then, of course, there was the large rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
  • Smith sees that one is wearing a black Patagonia Gore-Tex jacket under his camo vest and a high-tech rucksack with a German label.
  • Even from a mile away the lack of a rucksack suggested this to be Tom Bell - a Grangemouth man who has been up Ben Cleuch 1340 times armed with nothing more sophisticated than a Tesco carrier bag.
  • He was wearing a green jacket and dark coloured waterproof trousers and had been carrying a grey rucksack.
  • The bear gave up and ambled back to the rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was one of those few who genuinely had a rucksack full of potential. The Sun
  • He said: 'I had a cursory look around and there were two rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lake was a bit more than a mile from the nearest road: not wilderness exactly, but a very long way to hurry over a rough track with a rucksack on your back containing fifty litres of water and a dozen sluggish trout.
  • When shooting, a student sets up, usually laying his battle dress uniform blouse in the dirt, with his rucksack in front of him.
  • Mackenzie shucked his rucksack and set it on the sand.
  • At Kandahar air base, streams of soldiers and airmen weighed down with huge rucksacks breathed a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
  • These days rucksacks are made with specially padded straps so that they do not rub against the shoulders.
  • He went right up to the nearest line of people, unshipped his rucksack, and took a machine rifle out of it. Masked
  • Group members also helped out one of their number who picked up an injury on the second day, carrying his rucksack the rest of the way.
  • Standing in the bath with his back towards me was a man with a rucksack on his back. The Sun
  • It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
  • In her gym, she would carry a heavy rucksack while running on the treadmill. Times, Sunday Times
  • He regularly covered 30 miles in a day lugging a rucksack heavy with specimens.
  • Modern rucksacks and sports bags no longer look like simple nylon sacks anymore.
  • He has blue eyes, short dark hair and wore a black top and cycling shorts and carried a rucksack.
  • All his camping gear was packed in the rucksack.
  • He removed his rucksack from his back, and took out his secateurs and his hedge clippers.
  • He is a lumpy Englishman with shaven head, big feet and a small rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • One lady, a rucksack, two bags, an embroidery frame and a cactus went from Kent to Bow?
  • By daybreak, rucksacks are white with frost inside the tents.
  • It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
  • Inside the rucksack he was carrying at the time of his arrest was a kitchen knife. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight.
  • Waiting for her on the grass in her rucksack is the rug from the end of her bed, a bath tow; @l, her hairbrush, a tin of talc. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • Once all the cash has been collected, it will also be used to purchase necessary items such as rucksacks to carry the equipment, training manuals and oxygen cylinders.
  • : for riders who don't want to carry a D-lock (or can't fit one in their rucksacks or on their frames) there's this "Gold Secure" - rated foldable lock. 85cm long. Singletrack Magazine
  • Wesley dumped his rucksack, turned around, and --- by way of explanation --- unzipped his mac. BEHINDLINGS
  • On the plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd.
  • Some might say rucksacks only belong on a schoolgirl. Times, Sunday Times
  • I bought a frame rucksack with belt yesterday.
  • The man also wears a dark baseball cap with a motif on the front, light brown boots, and carries a dark coloured rucksack on his back.
  • 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.
  • Then you've come to the right place, mate," he replied, and with elaborate courtesy took possession of my rucksack while the second boy helped himself to my shoulder-bag, thereby leaving me unencumbered. The mission song
  • Airmen each carried rucksacks laden with more than 120 pounds of food and water expecting to be in the area for five days.
  • Before setting off we test our girl scouting skills by attaching Hanna's sleeping bag to her bulging rucksack with bits of string.
  • A teenager had his rucksack taken from him by a youth, who was part of a larger gang.
  • I'll just sneak in under a fence - stick a packed lunch in a rucksack and keep a low profile with a disguise. The Sun
  • I had a rucksack with five sets of clean clothes, toiletries, towels and razors. The Sun
  • The 14-year-old schoolgirl's remains were discovered on the same stretch of river where her rucksack was found exactly a month ago. The Sun
  • 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.
  • However, the ‘standard’ option is to have a rucksack of 55-65 litres, plus a daysack of 15-20.
  • He was dressed in a similar way, but was carrying a small dark rucksack with two stripes down the middle.
  • Waiting for her on the grass in her rucksack is the rug from the end of her bed, a bath tow; @l, her hairbrush, a tin of talc. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • With rucksack still strapped to your back, creep closer. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, burdened with my rucksack and daypack, unshaven in T-shirt and travel combats, I wander among the besuited guests, conference attendees and dignitaries like a sore thumb.
  • Eye witnesses said the perpetrators were carrying rucksacks.
  • The porter's carried our big rucksacks leaving us with just our daysacks containing waterproofs, snacks, water and cameras.
  • The gunman was white, and wore a bobble-type hat, with a check padded shirt, patched jeans, a jacket and canvas rucksack.
  • 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.
  • The bear gave up and ambled back to the rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning we awoke to overcast skies and a light snowfall, but I was too excited about the challenge of the day to be bothered by the weather, as we geared up with our ski suits, gaiters, rucksacks and the all important snowshoes.
  • The bear gave up and ambled back to the rucksack. Times, Sunday Times
  • She hung the rucksack on her shoulder and walked slowly down the familiar paths she had passed before.
  • The Rucksack Club was founded in 1902, originally Manchester based but expanding into branches throughout the country.
  • Stephanie put the rucksack on the carpet by a walk-in cupboard and checked the Glock. CHAMELEON
  • Most came with bags and rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has blue eyes, short dark hair and wore a black top and cycling shorts and carried a rucksack.
  • I bought a frame rucksack with belt yesterday.
  • But when you get a bit peckish, feel free to stuff one in your rucksack and serve it up. The Sun
  • I've also eschewed all those those natty cycling rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • But one night, a woolly-hatted youth ferreted around in the skip and extracted the ancient rucksack.
  • I was pondering these increasingly likely eventualities when the train pulled into the last stop, the doors opened and I fell out onto the platform with my unchanged rucksack.
  • Ensconced on a giant rucksack, wearing camouflage paint, a helmet and some fetching pink frillies, Lydia's mum Jodie, agreed: ‘It's absolutely fantastic.’
  • So, burdened with my rucksack and daypack, unshaven in T-shirt and travel combats, I wander among the besuited guests, conference attendees and dignitaries like a sore thumb.
  • After a gap of three hours there was a further sighting of the men, all wearing trainers and T-shirts and two carrying rucksacks, at Baker Street station.
  • It is made from tough fabric and is ideal as a trekking daysack or adventure rucksack.
  • The scenes end with her leaving the pub in a white ski jacket with a rucksack on her back. The Sun
  • Police praised the honesty of the finder of a rucksack containing 10,000 that had been left in a street. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a regime devised by his friend and conditioning trainer, ex-paratrooper Owen Lennon, Harrison dons a Bergen rucksack with 30 lb weight in it.
  • Near the docks I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack.
  • The tool bag, the size of a rucksack, is one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalker. Times, Sunday Times
  • I donned the shorts to expose white knobbly knees, put on my peaked cap and shades and rounded off the ensemble with the rucksack.
  • Sarah put her maps in the outside pocket of her rucksack.
  • Hip belts Essential for backpacking rucksacks, the hip belt takes most of the load off the shoulders.
  • Walking with a stick and a rucksack around remote villages throughout Spain, he listened to local people, from shepherds to washerwomen, and explained landscape, history and geography. José Antonio Labordeta obituary
  • I may have looked a wally charging along wearing a cycling lid and rucksack, but it didn't slow me enough not to catch the villain within a couple of blocks.
  • My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack.
  • Most use a small rucksack that carries everything including food, drink, clothing, bait and tackle.
  • He said: 'I had a cursory look around and there were two rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • No bags, rucksacks or backpacks larger than eight inches square will be allowed beyond the ticket and security checkpoints.
  • He said: 'I had a cursory look around and there were two rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, to secure the best security scoop yet, the journo brought in pretend bomb-making equipment in his rucksack.

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