Showing posts with label intense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intense. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Curious ceremonial expression
…and the senior men mounted in full fig, wearing that curious ceremonial expression of solemn intensity, as thought they were trying mot to fart.
Flashman and the Dragon, p.286, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Now they work as ministerial advisers
He was one of those very young, intense creatures of the kind you see addressing heaven in the background of pictures showing Napolean crossing the Alps in dancing pumps.
Royal Flash, p.247, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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