Valkyrian proportions

So it was with a light heart and my hat on three hairs that I found myself strolling under the famous lime trees to the Brandenburg Thor a few weeks later, taking a long slant at the Thier Garten in the June sunshine, and marvelling at the Valkyrian proportions of German women...


Flashman and the Tiger, p.27, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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The art of Flashman

As to the lines of her figure, Rubens would have bitten his brush in two.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.60, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.

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Dressed so tight

…fashionable women in the 70s dressed so tight they could barely sit down, and hers was a perfect hourglass shape—a waist I could gladly have spanned with my two hands, but for her upper and lower works you’d have needed the help of the lifeboat crew.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.261, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Stone idol

…and she was beautiful… with a figurehead like St Cecilia and a body that would have brought a stone idol howling off its pedestal.

Flashman and the Redskins, pp.78-79, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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