Old-fashioned gratitude

‘Charming meal, my dear,’ he said as the waitress presented the bill, ‘and I only regret that infirmity prevents me from inviting you out to express my gratitude in the old-fashioned way. Have a couple of quid instead and give us a hug.’



Mr American, p.521, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.



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Chicken broth and flannel

. . .  I'd shared Langtry with him, behind his back, and done my duty by pretty Daisy — as who hadn't ? Not La Keppel, though; she was after my time, worse luck, not heaving into view until I'd reached what Macaulay calls the years of chicken broth and flannel, when you realise how dam’ ridiculous you'd look chasing dollymops young enough to be your daughter, and seek solace in booze, baccy, and books. Regrettable, of course, but less tiring and expensive.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.223, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Babbling Brooke

. . . Daisy, who was known as Babbling Brooke, was a sort of mad socialist — even today, when she's Countess of Warwick, no less, she still raves in a ladylike way about the workers, enough said. At the time of Tranby she was a stunning looker, rich as Croesus, randy as a rabbit, and Prince Bertie's mount of the moment — indeed, I ain’t sure she wasn't the love of his life . . .

Flashman and the Tiger, p.223, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A notorious wastrel

When you're a queen of unblemished virtue, devoted to Duty and the high moral tone, and your son and Heir to the Throne is a notorious wastrel who counts all time lost when he ain't stuffing, swilling, sponging off rich toad-eaters and rogering anything in skirts, you're apt to be censorious . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.213, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Pomading his eyebrows

      But my conversational bolt was shot. For once I was at a loss — as who would not be, on discovering that while he was bulling a chap's wife all over the shop and probably making a hell of an uproar, the chap himself was virtually next door brushing his teeeth or pomading his eyebrows . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.188, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A true meeting of minds

It was a true meeting of minds, for I doubt if a woman ever stripped faster from full court regalia, and we revelled in each other like peasants in a hayrick . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.187, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Heel!

…as I contemplated those enormous endowments fore and aft, and the massive shapely thigh thrust out of her peignoir, I came all over a-tremble, pointing like a gundog.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.288-89, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Aphrodite or the governess

In each case, Aphrodite or the governess, the magic is different, you see; there is always some unique charm of singular attraction, and it can be hard to define. In Mai Jeendan, though, it stood out a mile: she was simply the lewdest-looking strumpet I ever saw in my life.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.86, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Dropping my hammer and chisel

…her gown of crimson silk clung to a shape which English travellers are wont to describe as ‘a thought too generous for the European taste’ but which, if I’d been a classical sculptor, would have had me dropping my hammer and chisel and reaching for the meat.

Flashman's Lady, pp.100-01, Pan edition, 1979.

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Monkey business

…and then she was thrusting up and down like a demented monkey on a stick…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.103, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Had the wit

…this time I had the wit to seize a tit and buttock, fairly hooting with lust…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.103, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Every limb but one

I could only gape; whether it was the drink, or admiration or what, I don’t know, but I seemed paralysed in every limb but one.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.103, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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A damned romantic business

You can’t help it; feeling randy is a damned romantic business, and it’s my belief that Galahad was a bigger beast in bed than ever Lancelot was.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.98, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Not like Flashman

…there were times when even I found myself regarding her with an interest that wasn’t more than four-fifths lustful – and that ain’t like me.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.94, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Must be a new subject

…and remembered that Elspeth, poor child, must even now be waiting for her cross-buttocking lesson.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.26, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Flashman, frost and fire-crackers

…I thought I knew everything in the galloping line, but I’ll swear there’s no more alarming way of doing it than under a pile of skins in a sled skimming through the freezing Russian night; it’s like performing on a bed of fire-crackers.

Flashman at the Charge, p.190, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Sporting his beef

‘Mortified?’ cries I. ‘With that randy old rip sporting his beef in your bedroom, and you simpering naked at him?’

Flashman at the Charge, p.47, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Comparing birthmarks

He was in the act of advancing towards my wife, and from the expression on his face – which was that of a starving, apoplectic glutton faced with a crackling roast – and from other visible signs, his intention was not simply to compare birthmarks.

Flashman at the Charge, p.46, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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An archdeacon on holiday

She was a knowing wench, however, and eventually had him galloping away like an archdeacon on holiday…

Flashman at the Charge, p.40, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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My own ardent youth

It made me quiet sentimental to watch him – reminded me of my own ardent youth , when every coupling began with an eager stagger across the floor trying to disentangle one’s breeches from one’s ankles.

Flashman at the Charge, p.40, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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