Alarming mixture

And while no normal human being would even have thought of such a thing, or had the audacity to attempt it, Elspeth had always been that alarming mixture of an idiot and a bearcat for nerve.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.260, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Bright-eyed excitement

“Sign of nerves, Starnberg. You just want wish it was over and done with.”
      It didn't deflate him a bit. “Nerves yourself!” scoffs he. “If you mean I'm lookin' forward to it, you're right.” I believed him for I'd seen the same bright-eyed excitement at the prospect of slaughter in idiots like Brooke and Custer, and it's the last thing you need when your own fears are gullet-high.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.122, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Nerve

Goddam, but that woman’s a bearcat for nerve — a bearcat, sir!



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.295, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Nerve

I’ll say it for Nicholas Ignatieff – he was a bear-cat for nerve.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.57, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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