Showing posts with label called. Show all posts
Showing posts with label called. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
He was the Governor
But he was the Governor, and had just fed me, so I nodded attentively and said “I never knew that, sir,” and “Ye don’t say!” though I might as well have hollered “Whelks for sale!” for all he heard.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.34, Harper Collins, 1995.
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Saturday, 7 June 2008
Not even echoes
God how I called; I roared like a bull calf, and got nothing back, not even echoes.
Flashman, p.217, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
Flashman, p.217, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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