Whining and dining

All told it was as pleasant a meal as one could have in the presence of a terrifying ogre, with the blood still sticky before his feet, and the foul stench of the death-house all around.

Flash For Freedom!, p.78, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Gambling and the gentry

It’s always the same; the more genteel the company, the fouler the play.

Royal Flash, p.14, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Foul thoughts

If you have a foul mind, as I do, you think foul thoughts readier than clean ones…

Flashman, p.267, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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