Word: knapsacked
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...kind he was, even then! Yes, every morning when the school bell rang for recess, Paul would produce three rolls from his knapsack, eat two, and always give the third roll to a very poor boy in the class below...
...August issue of the Forum, Frederick S. Hoppin gives an able description of balloon jumping, looks into the future: "Why should we not in time perfect a moderate sized knapsack filled with some highly volatile non-inflammable gas which, strapped comfortably to our back, would be able to lift some 20, 30, or 40 pounds off our burden of flesh? ... If we should ever have knapsacks of unlimited power, our whole present day world will be turned upI side down. ... All the legislatures will be busily engaged in passing laws prohibiting people from leaving the earth too freely, or rules...
...youth volunteer to die in the burning heat of the desert, fighting for five centimes a day in a corps which has left the bones of its soldiers strewn in every quarter of the globe from Indo-China to Mexico? Flotsam recruits never explain their presence beneath the knapsack of the legionnaire, but it is not insignificant that while fighting for the far-flung Tri-color of France these romantic, scarred gentlemen rankers are protected by that banner from all extraditions. Glamorous traditions, adventure, protection...
...with his brothers, a mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...
...GREENLEAF.LOST.- A class pin made of a green gold wreath with two cannons crossed. In centre is a blue enameled knapsack with the letters...