Bone clean

. . . I was conducted to an airy chamber on the third floor, bone clean and well if sparsely furnished with a good charpoy,* leather chair, table, wash-stand, rug on the floor and leather curtain on the arrow-slit window — I’ve stayed in country inns at home that were less decent and comfortable.


* Native frame-and-cord bedstead.



Flashman on the March, p.77, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Keeping himself nice

The Prince Carl Gustaf hadn’t had pox at all; he was clean as an old bone.

Royal Flash, p.181, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Foul thoughts

If you have a foul mind, as I do, you think foul thoughts readier than clean ones…

Flashman, p.267, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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