The clipper-ship era is probably the most celebrated period of marine history — the inspiration for the paintings and prints that seem to hang everywhere, from stodgy clubs to fast-food restaurants. ❋ Unknown (2010)
These were not the brisk, devilish, able-bodied men who manned the ships of the old clipper-ship days; who fought their officers, who had the points of their sheath-knives broken off, who killed and were killed, but who did their work as men. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At Credit Suisse Group, the legacy of First Boston remains only in a logo that evokes that investment bank's famous clipper-ship brand, while you can see Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette only in the name of Credit Suisse's private-equity arm, DLJ Merchant Banking. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They sailed by the clipper-ship ATRATA and travelled in style, accompanied by a maid to attend to Mary and both nurses. — ❋ Unknown (2003)
And so the very last kisses and handclasps exchanged, the travellers climbed down into a boat already deep in the water with other cuddy-passengers and their luggage, and were rowed out to where lay that good clipper-ship, the RED JACKET. ❋ Unknown (2003)
What if the Panama Canal were to be closed, requiring shipping to go “around the Horn,” as in clipper-ship days? ❋ George P. Shultz (1993)
New York, had been at the head of fast clipper-ship lines -- the New ❋ Edwin M. Bacon (N/A)
If every man is willing to give up his morning paper, wear a linen shirt, cross the ocean in a clipper-ship, and burn wood in an open fire-place, something might be done. ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)
The Yankee whittling a shingle with his jack-knife is commonly accepted as a caricature, but it is an unconscious symbolization of the plastic instinct which rises step by step to the clothes-pin, the apple-parer, the mowing-machine, the wooden truss-bridge, the clipper-ship, the carved figure-head, the Cleopatra of the World's Exhibition. ❋ Various (N/A)
Out of this impetus for prosperity came the remarkable clipper-ship era. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
Egyptian chariot; the wind-driven clipper-ship traced its line unbroken to Ulysses's lateen bark before Troy; while industry still relied on the brawn of man and beast or upon the simple action of wind and waterfall. ❋ Lothrop Stoddard (1916)
In the old clipper-ship days, Mr. Noyes, a great trick was to send a man out on the end of a yard in heavy weather and get the man at the wheel to snap him overboard. ❋ Unknown (1912)
And it was not many hours before little Rénee was scudding away from the school of Divinity, like a clipper-ship under a full spread of canvas, before a rousing sou'west breeze. ❋ Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1910)
Would prob'ly be my _third_ one, on a Hong Kong clipper-ship. ❋ Various (1902)
A clipper-ship from Boston, two thousand tons, and with skysails. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
"I was saving that name for the handsomest clipper-ship that money could build," he said. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought ❋ Amy Lowell (1899)
