The spears struck home

. . . the Zulu regiments rallied and came bounding in in a great mad charge, the rain of throwing spears whistling ahead of them like hail, and the stabbing assegais coming out from behind the white shields as they tore into our disordered front line, the roar of “’Suthu! ’Suthu!” giving way to their hideous hissing “’S-jee! ’S-jee!” as the spears struck home.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.276, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Feegh!

. . . she gave one of her wordless Caledonian exclamations of impatience . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.256, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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What the Dickens

"Walk-er!" says I...


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.96, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.




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A few words on exclamations

      The Brulé riders were thundering by before me, shrieking their “Kye-kye-kye-yik!” and “Hoo’hay!”, and if ever you hear that from a Sioux, get the hell out of his way, because he isn’t asking you the time. The only worse noise he makes is “Hoon!” which is the equivalent of the Zulu “s’jee!” and signifies that he’s sticking steel into someone.

Flashman and the Redskins, pp.313-14, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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