Hoisting our rucksacks, we gave up box cars in favor of a civilized passenger train, northward bound, and at noon crossed the Dutch border at Simplefeldt.
"The Log of a Noncombatant"
Horace Green
We will shoulder our rucksacks early, and be early on the mountains, for the first maxim in going a journey is the early start.
"Pebbles on the Shore"
Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
All had heavy rucksacks, many of them the packs of their dead fathers and brothers.
"A Dominie in Doubt"
A. S. Neill