An expert to boot

      You see, we poltroons have a talent for spotting heroes — we have to, in order to steer well clear of them — and from what I learned from Henty, who sat by me at tiffin, Speedy was a prime specimen, and an expert to boot.


Flashman on the March, p.35, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Experts will tell you

…none of it compared with the black jade chessmen I collared in the Birthday Garden a few days later; no one else would even look at ’em, which showed judgment, since the experts will tell you that black jade doesn’t exist. I don’t mind; all I know is that while Lucknow paid for Gandamack Lodge, those chessmen bought me the place on Berkeley Square.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.270, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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No ordinary packet rats

...my respect for them had increased mightily over our encounter with the British sloop, which had confirmed my earlier impression that these were no ordinary packet rats with the points knocked off their knives, but prime hands. And I've learned that no time is wasted which is spent listening to men who really know their work.

Flash For Freedom!, p.96-7, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Obviously not a consultant then

He was an authority, of the true kind who never pretends more than he knows…

Royal Flash, p.174, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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