Showing posts with label console. Show all posts
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Monday, 5 March 2012
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.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, bullock.
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aristocracy,
bullock,
console,
Prussian,
simile,
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