Added spice

…I’m not one of those who count danger an added spice, least of all in houghmagandie, as Elspeth used to call it whenever I got her tipsy


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.44, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Princes or prime ministers

I should have known that it’s never safe to get within range of princes or prime ministers.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.28, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Remember the golden rule

However fearful my present predicament, however horrid the odds and dangers ahead, they’d get no better with being fretted over. It ain’t always easy, if your knees knock as hard as mine, but you must remember the golden rule: when the game’s going against you, stay calm – and cheat.

Flashman at the Charge, p.210, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Not even a sniff o’ danger

It was unnerving, and suddenly I could hear Kit Carson’s strained quiet voice in the dread silence of the wagon road west of Leavenworth: 'Nary a sight nor sound anywhere – not even a sniff o’danger. That’s what frets me.'

Flashman at the Charge, p.184, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Even slimy little snakes

Now, if I’d been as wise then as I am now, I’d have remembered that even as slimy a snake as Bryant still has fangs…

Flash For Freedom!, pp.28-29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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When in danger

Possibly it was just my natural instinct: when in danger, get behind a woman’s skirt.

Royal Flash, p.262, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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