12 examples of fowey in sentences

They had come safely through the Irish Sea and round the Land's End, but when near their journey's end off Fowey they had run into a patch of mines laid by German submarines.

A crack Fowey-man now making a board till she "eat out" of the wind a North-countryman right aheadnow with her helm-a-lea, and now careering along with a heavy following sea on either quarterkept our attention on the alert.

FOWEY =How to get there.=Train from Paddington.

=Accommodation Obtainable.="The Fowey Hotel," "St. Catherine's Private Hotel," "Cotswold House," etc. Fowey, now little more than a fishing village and holiday resort, was once the chief port in Cornwall, and the equal of Plymouth and Dartmouth, a position it owed to its fine harbour, formed by the mouth of the river Fowey, on which it stands.

=Accommodation Obtainable.="The Fowey Hotel," "St. Catherine's Private Hotel," "Cotswold House," etc. Fowey, now little more than a fishing village and holiday resort, was once the chief port in Cornwall, and the equal of Plymouth and Dartmouth, a position it owed to its fine harbour, formed by the mouth of the river Fowey, on which it stands.

=Accommodation Obtainable.="The Fowey Hotel," "St. Catherine's Private Hotel," "Cotswold House," etc. Fowey, now little more than a fishing village and holiday resort, was once the chief port in Cornwall, and the equal of Plymouth and Dartmouth, a position it owed to its fine harbour, formed by the mouth of the river Fowey, on which it stands.

Between these forts, in mediaeval days, the men of Fowey used to draw a chain as an additional security.

After he had concluded peace with France, the men of Fowey continued to make prizes of whatever French ships they could capture, and refused to give up their piratical ways.

This treatment of Fowey seems a little hard in view of the fact that Dartmouth men were constantly raiding the coasts of Brittany.

The finest and most interesting house in the town is Place House, the seat of the Treffrys, who have been connected with Fowey for many generations.

[Illustration: Valentine & Sons, Ltd. FOWEY.

'Twas the 1st of March when we quitted Bodmin, and quartered at large at Columb, St Dennis, and Truro, and the enemy took his quarters at Bodmin, posting his horse at the passes from Padstow on the north, to Wadebridge, Lostwithiel, and Fowey, spreading so from sea to sea, that now breaking through was impossible.

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