Showing posts with label crooked. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crooked. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

How crooked?



Crooked as a Jesuit’s conscience...


Flashman and the Tiger, p.70, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Russian infantry

…the faro table was as crooked as a line of Russian infantry and a damned sight harder to beat.



Royal Flash, p.14, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.




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