Meanwhile, at every session of the Old Bailey the most terrible example of coiners and clippers was made.
Suffice it to say that before the clippers could be rooted out, and confidence restored between buyer and seller, the greatest statesmen, the greatest financiers, and the greatest philosophers were all at their wits' end.
He told me of his first day here, when he stood on the deck of a ferry and watched three great clippers go out with the tide, bound for Calcutta.
Down there at his dock, where even in days that I could remember the tall clippers had lain for weeks, I saw now a German whaleback.
The ship was one of those iron wool-clippers that the Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during the seventh decade of the last century.
With a dexterous fling the animal is put in a sitting posture between the shearer's knees, and then the steel clippers begin clipping off the wool.
An' when I think of the fleets of the tea-clippers that used to load at Hong Kong an' race the Eastern Passages.
And his father, Robert, sailed master to the north-west coast before the gold days and was captain of some of the fastest Cape Horn clippers after the gold discovery.
It is very probable that the whole system of the ocean will be materially changed; and that while clippers and slow propellers carry the fine freights, fast vessels filled with their own power will carry the mails and passengers.
And not only is higher speed than that of clippers unnecessary in ordinary freight transport, but it is clearly impossible in any normal condition of trade.
The ordinary average passages of the ocean on long voyages are now very rapid; and some of the clippershave attained a speed which no freighting steamer may ever be expected to do on the high seas.
With that something leaped, and I sawclippers flashing close by.
And my clippers had fallen from my hand and landed out of reach.
In 1692, information was given of three hundred coiners and clippers dispersed in various parts of the city, for several of whom warrants were issued, some by the Treasury, others by the Lord Chief Justice.
See also a Sermon preached at York Castle by George Halley, a clergyman of the Cathedral, to some clippers who were to be hanged the next day.
The injury done by the whole body ofclippers to the whole society was indeed immense; but each particular act of clipping was a trifle.
He mentions the impenitent ends which clippers generally made, and does his best to awaken the consciences of his bearers.
One witness can send to Tyburn a gang of clippers and comers.
Meanwhile the shears of the clippers were constantly at work.
Saw there some of the first of those Yankee clippers that have since almost monopolized the China carrying trade.
There was no reply to this; Clippers showed that he was "stumped.
At this moment the pair entered the room and the hand of Clippers pointed to a couch against the wall.
The two entered a little house near the mouth of an alley, and Clippers led the way to a room to the left of the hall.
Clippers stood over his friend, the detective, and folded his arms while Old Broadbrim read the written papers found in the little house.
I hear that Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone are planning a new policy--bigger ships, clippers in the China and California trade; and that means removal to Boston.
Everyman to the weapons of his trade," exclaimed Asbury Fuller, and the hair clippers seemed suddenly enveloped in a mass of white flame, as the rapier played about them.
Leadbury snatched up a large pair of hair clippers and waved them with a menacing gesture.
He hath had 49 clippers all at once, and their wage is, to each man 12d.
In the middle of the seventeenth century, clippers always expected a joint of roasted mutton.
Captain Toby had, in his day, commanded fast clippersand other sailing vessels.
Tall-sparred clippers that had once proudly swept the seven seas, rusty old tramp steamers, looking like the wrecks of marine hoboes that they were, and venerable ferryboats, all rubbed sides in this salt water cemetery.
The Government consenting, Clifton designed the Blue Jacket and the Red Jacket and vessels of that class, which were the famous opium clippers of the "roaring forties" and fifties.
Very shortly after I had been beaten for the impiety of thinking for myself, the merchant clippers adopted the very plan I had in mind, lowering masts and increasing the size of sails and thereby gaining a speed which was unrivalled.
They crossed an alfalfa-field, jumped an irrigation ditch, used the clippers again, and found themselves in a large pasture.
The foreman's wire-clippers severed the strands one by one, and they led their horses through the gap.
We continued running dead before the wind, knowing that we sailed better so, and that clippers are fastest on the wind.
He did so wonder if the wire clippers really could cut that thick wire!
Sunny picked up the wire clippers and studied them carefully.
British clippers raced against each other for the blue ribbon of the ocean with as great zest as they had ever done when other flags were in the field.
As the American clippers earned on the round about a third more freight than English ships could obtain on their out-and-home voyage, competition bore very hard on the latter.
The American and British clippers were originally built of wood sheathed with metal.
In the course of time, when speed and facilities of despatch at home and abroad had been further improved, the clippersfrom London took in Australia in the outward voyage by way of filling up the time until the tea crop was brought to market.
In sketching the performances of these vessels we have somewhat anticipated the advent of that famous fleet of tea clippers which commanded the traffic of the Far East for something like fifteen years.
The clippers proper had not had a clear run of fifteen years when steamers began to trespass on their preserves.
But though sailing clippers were displaced, the sporting element in the China trade was not extinguished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hatchet; jackknife; pick; tool
