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  • As a striking proof of their desperate resolution, the defenders of Pendennis themselves fired the manor-house of Arwenack, in order that it might not be occupied by the Parliamentary troops, and these had to be content with such trenches and defences as they could contrive from the ruins.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Killigrews, through marriage with its heiress, which seems to have been somewhere about 1385, though some of the rather confused records tend to show that the Killigrews had connection with Arwenack earlier than this.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Walter Raleigh was entertained at Arwenack, and was much struck by the fine naval capabilities of Falmouth Harbour, laying the matter before

    The Cornwall Coast

  • But we know very little with certainty about the place until the Arwenack manor was acquired by the

    The Cornwall Coast

  • They were visiting Sir John and they were to remain yet a week his guests at Arwenack that they might grace the coming nuptials.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Arwenack accomplished -- indeed, more of it accomplished than had been his intent, and also something less.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • There were a score of questions a man of perspicuity would not have asked, not one of which appears to have occurred to the knight of Arwenack.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • You may continue indefinitely your residence here at Arwenack, and you have been wise, I think, in quitting the loneliness of Godolphin Court.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Once only before they dipped from the heights of Arwenack did Oliver check.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • In the estuary of the River Fal a splendid ship, on the building of which the most cunning engineers had been employed and no money spared, rode proudly at anchor just off Smithick under the very shadow of the heights crowned by the fine house of Arwenack.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

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