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Yet Caine could still make out the looming outline of the massive rocks rimming the quay, blue fingers of fog coiling around the jagged peaks as the cliffs worked their way out toward Morwenstow.
The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003
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Yet Caine could still make out the looming outline of the massive rocks rimming the quay, blue fingers of fog coiling around the jagged peaks as the cliffs worked their way out toward Morwenstow.
The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003
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The fourth one that summer took six ships between Padstow and Hartland Point — including the Elizabeth of Bideford on the rocks of Morwenstow.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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Morwenstow; it is said he had an oratory here, and when he was dying he threw its silver bell into the waterfall.
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On one occasion he forgot to bring his watch, and he needed some guide in timing his service so that he might return to officiate at Morwenstow in the evening.
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Masters in 1846, with the title of _Echoes from Old Cornwall_, and written by the Vicar of Morwenstow.
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-- These lines are to be found in a poem called "Morwennæ Statio, hodie Morwenstow," published by
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The present vicarage at Morwenstow was built by Hawker himself, there having been no vicar in residence for long years before his coming.
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The Norman font is curiously sculptured with grotesque faces that look down on to equally quaint faces on the pedestal -- an allegory in stone which Mr Hawker of Morwenstow interpreted as the righteous looking down on the wicked.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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_ -- In Vol. ii., p. 230., the excellent vicar of Morwenstow asks the reason why combs are found in the graves of St. Cuthbert and others, monks, in the cathedral church of Durham.
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