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Safely past the dread Manacles, the Falmouth pilot left us.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

And him sailing her in from Blackhead close round the Manacles, in half a capful o' wind an' the tides lookin' fifty ways for Sunday!

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

She struck one of the Manacles, and within twenty minutes was submerged with the exception of masts and funnel.

From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)

She shot by close to the buoy of the Manacles.

From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.

"We'll hoist the topsail and make a run for it inside of the Manacles."

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)