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  1.  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 / Various
    'IM QUIET AND WELL-BE'AVED."] * * * * * THE CLYDE-BUILT CLIPPER. [Many of the fast-sailing clippers which were making fine passages in the Australian wool trade ...  details...
  2.  William Gibson Interviewed / Salza, Giuseppe
    to information; they wanna offer you a new shopping mall. What do you think of the Clipper issue ? The NSA ... of what is at stake here. Who would buy a computer with a spy inside? The Clipper chip is an admission  details...
  3.  The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors / Paine, Ralph Delahaye, 1871-1925
    !" VII. THE BRILLIANT ERA OF 1812 VIII. THE PACKET SHIPS OF THE "ROARING FORTIES" IX. THE STATELY CLIPPER ... Vincent in sixteen days, which was clipper speed. She ran into a French fleet of sixty sail, exchanged  details...
  4.  The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus / Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
    enough to keep the little clipper steady in hand. It would be difficult to define the exact class ... to do it with that leading wind in her favor; and so, after looking towards the clipper craft with her bows for a moment  details...
  5.  London River / Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958
    -flag--it is indistinguishable in the picture--and her master, and it is possible the oldest of them remembers the clippers ... looked in a fair way, sailing ahead fast with the wonderful clippers Donald McKay was building at Boston  details...
  6.  Fifth Avenue / Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946
    -heads--Conditions of Travel--Stage-coaches and Steamers--The Clipper Ships--When Dickens First Came. Boughton ... marked the founding of the Cunard Line. About the same time began the famous Clippers, which carried  details...
  7.  Nature and Human Nature / Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
    .--POPE CONTENTS I. A SURPRISE II. CLIPPERS AND STEAMERS III. A WOMAN'S HEART IV. A CRITTER WITH A THOUSAND ... . CLIPPERS AND STEAMERS. Whoever has taken the trouble to read the "Wise  details...
  8.  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 / Various
    ago--the _Clipper of the Seas_. And the next day, (Thursday) he had gone to Major Pratt ... ; she that went down on her voyage home, Mr. Philip." "The _Clipper of the Seas_?" "Just so, sir; the _Clipper  details...
  9.  Billets / Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1888-1959
    . CHAPTER II Tortuous travelling--Clippers and tablets--Dumped at a siding--I join my Battalion ... ! And then I crept into my tent and tried to sleep. CHAPTER II TORTUOUS TRAVELLING--CLIPPERS AND TABLETS  details...
  10.  Cappy Ricks / Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard), 1880-1957
    master of the American clipper ship, Cyrus Wakefield, who, at the age of twenty-five, broke three world ... to San Francisco, one hundred days; from the equator to San Francisco, eleven days. The clipper ship is gone  details...

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