Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Monday, 16 April 2012
Like a Mississippi pilot
. . . and a slender, red-headed piece who drank like a Mississippi pilot, with no visible effect.
Flashman and the Tiger, p.187, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, drank.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Too thick to drink
I remember what Sam Grant said about it [the Mississippi River] : ‘Too thick to drink and too thin to plough. It stinks.’ Not that he’d have drunk it anyway, unless it had been pure corn liquor from Cairo down.
Flash For Freedom!, pp.164-65, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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Flashman, 
Flashman quotes,
Ulysses S.Grant, 
Mississippi River.
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