‘Damn your eagerness!’ cries he. ‘Stand fast! Reload!’
They dropped back, snarling like dogs, and Campbell turned and calmly surveyed the wreckage of the Russian ranks.... they began to laugh and cheer, and yell their heathenish slogans…
Flashman at the Charge, p.85, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
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