Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 June 2012
In days gone by
You’ll recall Cumming was among those I’d suspected of dancing the honeymoon hornpipe with my dear one in days gone by . . .
Flashman and the Tiger, p.265, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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Thursday, 11 September 2008
Honeymoon hints
‘Your highness,’ he said at last, ‘ will be kind to our treasure.’
Strange, my own father-in-law had struck something of the same note before I married Elspeth; it’s a polite way of suggesting you don’t make too much of a beast of yourself on the honeymoon.
Royal Flash, p.155, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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Saturday, 31 May 2008
Married to the service
Mac was a bachelor, of course, one of these iron men who are married to the service and have their honeymoon with a manual of infantry drill and a wet towel round their heads…
Flashman, p.172, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
Flashman, p.172, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
Colin Mackenzie
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