Fowey
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The youngest of three sons, Antony Hewish was born in Fowey, Cornwall, on May 11, 1924, and grew up in the coastal town of Newquay.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021
Saturday that he came across a man on a makeshift raft in the vicinity of Fowey Rocks.
From Fox News ● Aug. 30, 2021
Mary Broad escaped the gallows and is believed to have ended her days back in Fowey, the fishing village in Cornwall where she was born.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 30, 2017
As the peninsula narrows, I'm hoping to find gainful employment on the south coast of Cornwall as well the north, maybe in Falmouth or Fowey.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2013
Here, all is in chaos: The Governor of Maryland is fled Annapolis, brought by the Fowey man-of-war to our camp.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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