The best kind of Frog

... for he was the best kind of Frog, shrewd and tough as teak, but jolly and with no foolish airs.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.180, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Morality tale

The moral is: don’t put on airs in front of Flashy, and if you do, keep your crinolines out of harm’s way.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.21, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Truly be called

I’ve sometimes wondered what the result of that encounter was, and if there is some sturdy peasant somewhere in Holstein called Carl who puts on airs in the belief that he can claim royal descent, If there is, he can truly be called an ignorant bastard.

Royal Flash, p.145, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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