Showing posts with label fat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Almost the altogether dandy
…he’d have been the altogether dandy if he hadn’t had the misfortune to be as fat as butter.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.116, Harper Collins, 1995.
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Monday, 28 December 2009
Grinning on the terrace
…the ghillies loafed about grinning on the terrace with the guns and pouches – they knew I loathed it, and that Ellenborough couldn’t carry his guts for more than ten yards without a rest, and the brutes enjoyed our discomfiture.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.47, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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Flashman, 
Flashman quotes,
Edward Law, 
Earl of Ellenborough.
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