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A sudden turn of the clouds let in a wild gleam of moonshine upon the white leaping heads of the breakers, and on the pyramid of the Black-church Rock, which stands in summer in such calm grandeur gazing down on the smiling bay, with the white sand of Braunton and the red cliffs of Portledge shining through its two vast arches; and against a slab of rock on the right, for years afterwards discoloured with her paint, lay the ship, rising slowly on every surge, to drop again with a piteous crash as the wave fell back from the cliff, and dragged the roaring pebbles back with it under the coming wall of foam.
Cary and the rest his guests the night before, and then ridden out with them at five o'clock that morning, after the wholesome early ways of the time, to rouse a well-known stag in the glens at Buckish, by help of Mr. Coffin's hounds from Portledge.
And yet, though I cannot see through the bottom of the tankard already, I can see plain enough still to see this, that Will shall not fight." "Shall I not, eh? who says that? Mr. Frank, I appeal to you, now; only hear." "We are in the judgment-seat," said Frank, settling to the pasty. "Proceed, appellant." "Well, I was telling Amyas, that Tom Coffin, of Portledge; I will stand him no longer."
I had sooner kiss the dust off thy feet, if I were worthy of it. So now away home; my inside cries cupboard." In the meanwhile Messrs. Evans and Morgans were riding away, as fast as the rough by-lanes would let them, along the fresh coast of the bay, steering carefully clear of Northam town on the one hand, and on the other, of Portledge, where dwelt that most Protestant justice of the peace, Mr.
Coffin of Portledge, though he were a little proud and stately; but which of the two should she choose? "Crocker, Cruwys, and Copplestone, When the Conqueror came were all at home." And Mr.
The most ancient seat of the name and family of the Coffins in England is Portledge, in the parish of Alwington. To his house, and last earthly home, in Brookline, Mass., built under his own eye, and in which Charles Carleton Coffin died, he gave the name of Alwington.
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