A consoling hand

...Prussians, you know, care not two damns about their inferiors. Neither do I, but I know it's good business to pretend that I do, and looked in on Beefy before retiring to lay a consoling hand upon his thick skull; he just gaped like a ruptured bullock.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.113, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Astonishing rumbles

…he gave one of his astonishing rumbles, like a bull in a brothel.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.238, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Very attentive

…who was hanging on every word, and looking like a ruptured bullock.

Royal Flash, p.136, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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