Then I said, “Then what do you think a nail clipper is supposedly for?”. From Wordnik.com. [Travel Blog (Totally Incomplete)] Reference
The Boeing clipper is widely regarded at the summit of flying boat technology. From Wordnik.com. [Boeing B-314 | My[confined]Space] Reference
The clipper is a very fast sailing ship used in the 1800's. From Wordnik.com. [Paperkraft.net] Reference
The "Albatross" might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
The “Albatross” might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
Short-term a clipper brushes us with clouds today, a colder wind kicking in this evening for high school football games. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
For heaven’s sake, nail clipper is to cut nails and it’s such disgusting to use a personal grooming tool in the public. From Wordnik.com. [Travel Blog (Totally Incomplete)] Reference
I am an inveterate 'clipper' from the press - have been since a teenager which is now longer than I care to remember. From Wordnik.com. [EducationNews.org] Reference
And I wouldn't swop her for the best clipper in the. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
Building clipper ships, introducing American goods in. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
What a clipper she is, to be sure; so easy to handle!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
"Ain't she jist one fair clipper?" asked Shelby, proudly. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
"Antelope," an opium clipper, which brought them to Shanghae. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Shipshape an 'Blackwall fashion too, as a clipper ought to be. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
The clipper "Great Republic" is not freighted half of her time. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
Some of our large clipper ships have experienced this difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
This implement, used to trim cattle horns, works like a gigantic clipper. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
My father was a sea captain in the old clipper days, and a long time after. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
No. 2, of course, refers to the size of the clipper guard used to cut my hair. From Wordnik.com. [Political Correctness Has Passed Me By] Reference
She really is a beautiful vessel; was a Yankee clipper in the war; 80 tons and 12 men. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
She has modelled the wave-slicing clipper which outsails all your argosies and armadas. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
At Tom's suggestion they got a little dory from the boathouse and rowed out to the clipper. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
The "Bella" was a full-rigged ship of nearly 500 tons burden, clipper-built, and almost new. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Whilst exercising, a clipper ship passed at some distance from us, bound to southward and eastward. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Byrd, who, in Bancroft's vernacular "spooned on Ralph" and had always considered Polly "a clipper.". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
In this future world, global trade relies on wind-powered clipper ships and lighter than air blimps. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Shearer: Happy Days Are Not Here Again: Obama, China and the Coming Great Contraction] Reference
The slave vessels are generally Baltimore clipper brigs, and schooners, completely armed and very fast sailers. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
"I say she's a regular clipper, captain," answered the lad in prompt sailor fashion, much to the skipper's delight. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
But I rather dread the next few years for her unless some one both wise and affectionate takes that little clipper ship's helm. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
He fastened it around Jerry's neck and busied himself at the counter behind the chair, sorting through combs and clipper guards. From Wordnik.com. [Credentials] Reference
Just as the oceans opened up a new world for clipper ships and Yankee traders, space holds enormous potential for commerce today. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The vessel, too, is a regular clipper in her way, beating everything that tries to compete with her, whether outwards or inwards bound. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
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