Novelties and baubles

“No, he would surely have sold me — and you. A white eunuch would be a novelty in Arabia.”
      I almost fell over. “A white . . . I ain’t a bloody eunuch!”
      “You would have been if they had seen us. Did you not mark the baubles which decorated their lances? Those were the genitals of prisoners and enemies.”


Flashman on the March, p.104, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Holler with good grace

      At the beginning of this memoir I gave you my first Law of Economics; if I have one for Adversity it is once your essentials are properly trapped in the mangle there’s nothing for it but to holler with good grace and wait until they roll you out again. Not that hollering does any good, but it relieves the feelings…




Flashman and the Dragon, p.43, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.


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Not so fancy footwork

He advanced a pace, squinting up where I was pointing – and the next instant his courting tackle was half-way up inside his torso, impelled by my right boot, he was flying across the cabin, screaming, and Flashy was out and racing…

Flashman's Lady, p.200, Pan edition, 1979.

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Carry thine eyes

‘Call Makarram Khan a pig just once more, ulla kabaja,* and I will carry thine eyes and genitals on this point as kebabs’.

* Son of an owl.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.118, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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