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...e towel around his neck and over his chest before brandishing her electric clippers and a pair of scissors at him. "Ready baby?" Kelly loudly gulps, o... ... more of her, very soon. He squeezes shut his eyes at the first hum of the clippers, automatically shivers when the buzz gets close to his ears. But f...

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... I had been third officer, and he seemed to have a prejudice against crack clippers as aristocratic and high- toned. He said to me, ‘Y ou know, in thi... ...as something different from the captains’ wives I had known on board crack clippers. When I brought her the shirts, she said: ‘And the socks? They wan...

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...he force of the wind. It was at night. The ship was one of those iron wool-clippers that the Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during the... ...the sight that could be seen five-and-twenty years ago of a large fleet of clippers moored along the north side of the New South Dock was an inspiring... ...oading dock for the Colonies in those great (and last) days of smart wool- clippers, good to look at and—well—exciting to handle. Some of them were mo... ...the fair city, down the vista of important streets, could be seen the wool-clippers lying at the Circular Quay—no walled prison-house of a dock that, ... ...day and gone next week; whereas the general cargo, emigrant, and passenger clippers of my time, rigged with heavy spars, and built on fine lines, used...

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...l apt to be mistaken. I fancied perhaps you might know I own a line of tea-clippers, an Francisco to Yokohama-six of ‘em-iron-built, about seventeen h...

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...ould have known how to seize; and gone with them the white-winged flock of clippers that lived in the 13 Joseph Conrad boisterous uncertain life of t...

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...gig darted through the water. “Give way! Give way!” She flew past the wool-clippers sleeping at their anchors each with the open unwinking eye of the ...

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...hus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels. Along- side them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationali- ties, and the steamboats,...

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...or the Clyde, riding peaceably at anchor—and soon after, two smart-looking clippers, with rakish masts, bearing down upon her in company—he slackens s...

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...teem I profess for the cultivation of hair, and to my perse- cution of the clippers of it. And in this kingdom is no one that beareth such a crop as I...

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...o get us out of the scrape. I never saw your equal, and I’ve met with some clippers in my time too.” And with this simple confession of faith, the lov...

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...he China coast.” He stopped, then added in an explanatory mur- mur: “Opium clippers—you know. Nothing of brass buttons about me. My ship left me behin...

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...raphies. But Frederick Douglass was still calking the seams of Balti- more clippers, and had only written a “pass,” at the age when Miller’s style was...

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...s chin was shaved his moustache should be brushed up out of the way of the clippers, for he and all his family were conspicuous for the immense amount...

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... bottomed, iron fastened, brazen faced, and not by any means fast sailing clippers are laid up in ordinary. The Flying Dutch man, with a crew of gho...

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...o get us out of the scrape. I never saw your equal, and I’ve met with some clippers in my time too.” And with this simple confession of faith, the lov...

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... bottomed, iron fastened, brazen faced, and not by any means fast sailing clippers are laid up in ordinary. The Flying Dutch man, with a crew of gho...

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...The lover from the sea-rim drawn — his love in English lanes. We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool; We warn the crawling ca... ...Red Ox freighters — we’ve eight-and-thirty now. And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights, And we knew we were makin...

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...ed running dead before the wind, knowing that we sailed better so, and that clippers are fastest on the wind. We had also another advantage. The win... ...t the old scenes. She sails to day, and I am off, steaming among the great clippers anchored in the harbor, and gliding rapidly round the point, pas... ...out chief mate the next voyage, and rose soon to command some of the finest clippers in the California and India trade, under the new order of thing...

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... burden, fills the streets and highways with robbers, and the garrets with clippers, coiners, and weekly journalists. But admitting that two or three ...

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...nd the Lollard, of the Respectable Person against the Artist, of the hedge-clippers of mankind against the shoot- ing buds. And to-day, while we live ...

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...ues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick, Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas. The shapes arise! Shapes of the ...

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...Johnson. ‘With your wings, Madam, you must fly: but have a care, there are clippers abroad.’ On Monday, April 29, he and I made an ex- cursion to Bris...

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...alse prophets, and broachers of sects; to the villainy of griping usurers, clippers, and coiners; or to the ignorance, impudence, and imprudence of ph...