In some disorder

. . . and the happy couple emerged, the bint in some disorder and Cavalry looking as though he’d just been ridden down by the Heavy Brigade.


Flashman on the March, p.174, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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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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Large and opulent

... she was awaiting me in a suit of rooms that Louis XIV might have thought too large and opulent for his taste.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.185, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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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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