clipper-ship

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.

CHAPTER VI 2010

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.

The Seafarer 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.

Rising Tide 2009

They sailed by the clipper-ship ATRATA and travelled in style, accompanied by a maid to attend to Mary and both nurses. —

The Way Home 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.

Australia Felix 2003

What if the Panama Canal were to be closed, requiring shipping to go “around the Horn,” as in clipper-ship days?

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

What if the Panama Canal were to be closed, requiring shipping to go “around the Horn,” as in clipper-ship days?

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

New York, had been at the head of fast clipper-ship lines -- the New

Manual of Ship Subsidies Edwin M. Bacon

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.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various