If you want to call me that, smile

      “Besides, I like your fanciful Indian names—what’s mine, by the way, apart from white-eye?”
      “Don’t you know? Why, ever since you rode with your lance at the pegs, everyone calls you by a fine name: White-Rider-Goes-So-Fast-He-Destroys-the-Wind-with-His-Speed.”
      It sounded not bad, if a bit of a mouthful. “They can’t call me all that every time,” says I.
      “Of course not, foolish one—they shorten it. He-Who-Breaks-the-Wind, or just Wind Breaker.”

Flashman and the Redskins, p.176, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Any sensible man

Now that’s the kind of talk that sends any sensible man diving for his hat and the nearest doorway, usually; otherwise you find yourself an hour later scribbling IOUs and trying to think of a false name.

Flashman's Lady, p.63, Pan edition, 1979.

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A quiet morning for Flashman

…I was lounging in the camp’s little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camel knows the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer…

Flashman at the Charge, p.251, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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And hyphenated I suspect

…and her owner is some bloody Dago with a name as long as your leg…

Flash For Freedom!, p.253, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Their new son

…an Irish subaltern and his young wife got me to stand godfather to their new son, who was launched into life with the appalling name of Flashman O’Toole…

Flashman, p.251, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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Such is fame

So that morning's work made a name for Harry Flashman - a name that enjoyed more immediate celebrity than if I had stormed a battery alone. Such is fame, especially in peacetime."



Flashman, p. 48, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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