| 1. | The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | This time the clerks evinced no inclination to laugh, such a real ear clipper did Porthos appear. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | The Gloria Scott had been in the Chinese tea-trade, but she was an old-fashioned, heavy-bowed, broad-beamed craft, and the new clippers had cut her out. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |