Monday, 4 January 2010

Full of zeal and athirst for glory



…he was one of your play-up-and-fear-God paladins, full of zeal and athirst for glory, was John, and said his prayers and didn’t drink and thought women were either nuns or mothers.



Flashman in the Great Game, p.61, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.




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