Showing posts with label chains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chains. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Chain retraction



      You’ve probably never worn chains, and may be interested to know that they can be a sight easier to put on than to take off.


Flashman on the March, p.210, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Friday, 23 November 2012

Glum speculation



      To keep my mind from glum speculation, I tried to remember how many times I’d been in chains before. Four or five, pehaps? Proper chains, that is, not the darbies used by the A Division peelers to restrain obstreperous revellers, but your genuine bilboes.


Flashman on the March, p.201, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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