Chain lightning

If there was a man in those days who could move faster in a crisis than H. P. Flashman, I never met him — but there was a woman who could have given me a head start, Uliba-Wark of Tigre, the nearest thing I ever saw to chain lightning with a link snapped.


Flashman on the March, p.115, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Little runaway

      “And the little juggins ran away, on the train last night?”
“Greased lightnin’ off a shovel,” says she cheerfully.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.294, Harper Collins, 1995.


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