His humane socks

      My hopes were soon shot; he might be wearing his humane socks, but he was pulling on his jackboots over them.


Flashman on the March, p.222, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Expecting the Spanish Inquisition

…the great terror of my infancy was a lurid coloured print entitled “All Hope Abandon”, purporting to show what happened when the Spanish Inquisition got hold of you — which they undoubtedly would, my nurse assured me, if I didn’t eat my crusts, or farted in Church.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.117, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Fluttered up

My heart fluttered up like a maiden’s prayer.

Royal Flash, p.195, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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