November 11th the magnificent clipper Contest led the Alabama a desperate chase in the Sea of Java, and although the latter was under both sail and steam, came very near escaping.
At the other end of the strait the fine clipper Winged Racer was encountered and met a like fate.
June 5th just before daylight the fine clipper ship Talisman ran within gunshot of the Alabama before discovering her presence.
A raw gateway had been cut, out by the old barn, into Clipper Lane, and a driveway filled in.
The morning came when the Frost's big car squeaked down the raw driveway from Clipper Lane, with little Ruth, in starched pink gingham, beaming on the back seat.
Night was drawing near, and theclipper was slipping fast away from us.
By the time the cobble got ashore, the fineclipper brig was nearly hull down.
The captain and crew of the British clipper were very kind, supplied all our needs, including tobacco, though we did not ask for the latter; this was obviously given to express more emphatically their sympathy and kindly feelings towards us.
But, somehow, he was not as prompt as was his wont, and sat evening after evening, whittling at the clipper and smoking thoughtfully.
But even Captain Eri's calmness was more or less assumed, for he did not go fishing the next morning, but stayed about the house, whittling at the model of a clipper ship and tormenting Captain Jerry.
If I had an oar or somethin' to steer this clipper with, maybe we could git into shoal water.
It was a sort of barometer of his feelings, and when his companions saw him take down the clipper and go to work, they knew he was either thinking deeply upon a perplexing problem or was troubled in his mind.
In 1887 the first American clipper sled was introduced by L.
In the reign of Elizabeth it had been thought necessary to enact that the clipper should be, as the coiner had long been, liable to the penalties of high treason.
The shore grew rapidly more indistinct as the shades of evening fell, while our clipper bark bounded lightly over the waves.
On recovering sufficiently to raise myself on my elbow, I perceived that we were already outside the coral reef, and close alongside the schooner, which was of small size and clipper built.
Who first gave the name of clipper to a ship, or what the name means, we do not know; but a clipper is understood to be a vessel so shaped as to sail faster than other vessels of equal tonnage.
The Aberdeen clipper is narrow, very keen and penetrating in front, gracefully tapering at the stern, and altogether calculated to 'go ahead' through the water in rapid style.
As compared with one of the ordinary old-fashioned English coasting brigs of equal tonnage, an Aberdeen clipper will attain nearly double the speed.
Just as the oceans opened up a new world for clipper ships and Yankee traders, space holds enormous potential for commerce today.
Just as the clipper passed, the Stars and Stripes fluttered out jauntily at her peak.
Herrick, after eying them keenly for a moment, pronounced them to be a British steamer and a full-rigged American clipper ship.
A first-class clipper has not more graceful lines.
Although this may not be considered a remarkable feat for a modern clipper of giant proportions, it was an instance of fast sailing and favorable breezes seldom exceeded in those days.
I proceeded immediately to an American clipper brig which was ready to sail for a port in the Chesapeake Bay.
One pleasant morning, an American clipper brig arrived at St. Bartholomew from the United States.
Preparations were accordingly made for the reception of the prisoner, who had made one of the crew of the large clipper schooner Plattsburg, on board which vessel mutiny, piracy, and murder had been committed.
When the schooner John was nearly ready for sea, my uncle, Captain Tilton, whom I had left in Charleston, arrived in port in a clipper schooner called the Edwin.
The Teaser was a New York pilot boat of ninety tons burden, a rakish, wicked-looking clipper enough.
The beard is cut quite short with the clipper every Saturday evening; this is done not so much from motives of vanity as from considerations of utility and comfort.
A few days afterwards our sociable circle at the hotel was much reduced, and among others the Clipperfamily departed.
How would you call it signing as chief mate of a clipper ship with a thing like that on you?
Seeing him from his poop indefatigably busy with his duties, Captain Ashton, of the clipper ship Elsinore, lying just ahead of the Sapphire, remarked once to a friend that "Johns has got somebody there to hustle his ship along for him.
This is what is known as the half-clipper or schooner bow.
Hence the title "Clipper Ship," which has now extended from America to England.
When the attention of naval architects was directed to the construction of swift sailing ships, they were compelled to adopt the clipper shape.
It was of a towering clipper ship with sails that stretched across their masts like skin over the bones of a pleasantly plump fellow, the wind billowing them about at a leisurely rate.
Not a clipper I own--stanch and steady, that's my motto.
This system came rapidly into vogue on the Clyde, and was adopted by several firms there in the building of those beautiful creations, the China clipper ships.
Buttercup' made a most excellent record; and though this was from causes quite apart from her clipper stem, yet she marks a stage as being the first cutter to reintroduce this adornment.
Not many shipments were as silly as this, but the fact remains that a rumor of a shortage in any commodity would often be followed by rush orders onclipper ships laden to the guards with that same article.
There's three or four American clipper ships in port with cargoes that must be sold, and no demand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clipper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
