Torpoint

It is drizzling when we go to sleep and drizzling when we make the short ferry trip across the Tamar river from Plymouth, in Devon, to Torpoint, which is in Cornwall.

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The town (so it is called) of Alexandrovsk -- at the same time the village of "Tighee" (Torpoint) would make four such towns -- was passed on our way up.

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So Sammy Hosking pulled up at a farmhouse a mile beyond St. Germans: and there she was unloaded, with her traps, and put straight to bed: and a farm-boy sent back to Torpoint to fetch a chaise for her as soon as she recovered.

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The stranger, who appeared to be in a sweating hurry, had rewarded the boy with half a crown; and the boy, rowing back to the Torpoint side and finding his master still in the tavern, had kept his own counsel and the money.

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Torpoint, they fell in with the water-police, who took them for a party rowing home to Plymouth from the Regatta, and threatened 'em with the lock-up if they didn't proceed quiet.

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Torpoint Ferry: and there, on the Cornish side of the water, stood the Highflyer coach, the inside of it crammed full of parcels belonging to our Vicar's wife, Mrs. Polwhele, that always visited

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I will pass over a blissful week of preparation, including a journey by van to Torpoint and by ferry across to Plymouth, where Miss

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From Torpoint came news that a man answering to his description had crossed the ferry there on the morning after the murder.

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Van -- "The Eclipse," Troy to Torpoint, No Smoking Inside -- received and bore him from our straining eyes.

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Deva, and in five minutes 'time the streets and gutters of Torpoint were pouring on to the Quay like so many shutes, and turning all the inshore water to the colour of pea-soup.

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