Try a little tenderness

      She took her lower lip gently in her teeth — a tiny gesture of puzzlement which has been turning my heart over since 1839.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.232, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Pouted at me

She leaned forward, bulging magnificently, and pouted at me with lips like cushions.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.289, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Speak not of love Flashy

      ‘What did you ever know of love?’ cries he. ‘Let me hear that word on your lips again, and I’ll have them sewn together, with a scorpion in your mouth!’
      Well, when he put it like that, I saw there was no point in arguing.

Flashman's Lady, p.190, Pan edition, 1979.

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