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To think of passing the winter evenings by the parlour fire-side of Seacombe Rectory alone with one of them for instance, the large and well-modelled statue, Sarah no; I should be a bad husband, under such circumstances, as well as a bad clergyman. "When I had declined my uncles' offers they asked me 'what I intended to do? I said I should reflect.
The Cheshire side of the Mersey forms a suburb of Liverpool, to which steamers are plying every ten minutes from the villages of Rock Ferry, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Monk's Ferry, Seacombe, Liskeard, Egremont, and New Brighton.
In the drawing-room there were several pictures and sketches by Du Val, one of which I especially liked, a misty, moonlight picture of the Mersey, near Seacombe. I never saw painted such genuine moonlight. . . . . I took my leave at half past ten, and found my cab at the door, and my cabman snugly asleep inside of it; and when Mr.
Winspit Quarry and Seacombe Cliff would be passed on the way; between the two are some old guns marking the spot where the East Indiaman Halsewell went down in a fearful storm in January, 1786. This tragedy was immortalized by Charles Dickens in "The Long Voyage." Out of 250 souls only eighty-two were saved by men employed at Winspit Quarry.
The best idea of the extent of the Liverpool Docks may be obtained from the Seacombe Hotel, an old-fashioned tavern, with a bowling green, where turtle soup, cold punch, and claret are to be had of good quality at moderate charges.
What you have been doing I know not; but you shall hear, if you choose to listen, how the world has wagged with me. "First, after leaving Eton, I had an interview with my maternal uncles, Lord Tynedale and the Hon. John Seacombe. They asked me if I would enter the Church, and my uncle the nobleman offered me the living of Seacombe, which is in his gift, if I would; then my other uncle, Mr.
It is difficult to convey a correct idea of the scene of this deplorable catastrophe, without describing the place where it happened. The Halsewell struck on the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck, between Peverel Point and St. Alban's Head, at a part of the shore where the cliff is of vast height, and rises almost perpendicular from its base.
"He strode from the room, and I followed. In crossing the hall, I wondered what Mrs. Crimsworth might be. 'Is she, thought I, 'as alien to what I like as Tynedale, Seacombe, the Misses Seacombe as the affectionate relative now striding before me? or is she better than these?
It was directed in a hand to me unknown small, and rather neat; neither masculine nor exactly feminine; the seal bore a coat of arms, concerning which I could only decipher that it was not that of the Seacombe family, consequently the epistle could be from none of my almost forgotten, and certainly quite forgetting patrician relations. From whom, then, was it?
See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a January night towards the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck! The captain's two dear daughters are aboard, and five other ladies. The ship has been driving many hours, has seven feet water in her hold, and her mainmast has been cut away.
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