Brecqhou

"Brecqhou," said the ancient mariner, as they swung past a long green island with beetling cliffs, and yawning caverns, and comet-like rushes of white foam among the chaos of rocks below.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

On Brecqhou, their private islet, they spent some £60 million to erect a castle known locally as the Carbuncle.

Daughters And Heirs 2008

This may be an oblique policy from the Barclay Bros, who are supposed to have entertained Cardinal Cormack Murphy O'Connor on Brecqhou, where they have a private chapel.

Lord Chief Justice supports the Williams nonsense 2008

But after it was dark, they lighted bonfires upon suitable promontories, especially towards Brecqhou and the Gouliot channel, where snags are numerous, and gathered in their harvest in the morning.

The Philanderers 1906

Did he stand above Havre Gosselin in the gloaming, while the sun sank behind Herm and Guernsey in splendours such as he had never dreamed of -- just so, he said to himself, Margaret had gone out of his life and left it gray and cheerless as the night side of Brecqhou.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

Brecqhou banging broadside on to that big black Gouliot rock would be

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

And so, to two at least of them, -- and perhaps to three, -- never surely was there room so radiant as that bare room in that empty house on Brecqhou.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

Johnnie, he had picked off the nails in the passage, and they set off for Havre Gosselin and Brecqhou.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

And in their ears, in the gaps of the storm, was the roaring thunder of the great white waves as they tore along the black sides of Brecqhou.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

They were spending a long day in Grande Grève -- the spot that had special claims upon their liking since their landing there after that memorable trip to Brecqhou.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896