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"Another minute or two, and we should have been on the Manacles."

From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

We caught sight, in the far distance to the southward, of the Manacles, a group of isolated rocks, on which more than one stout ship has been knocked to pieces.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles

They put out from Salcombe the next day, and keeping clear of Plymouth and Polperro and Fowey, heard the bell upon the Manacles in the afternoon and dropped anchor between the woods of Helford River.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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)

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