Hideous with his noise

Poor little Havvy, by the way, was our son and heir, a boisterous malcontent five-year-old who made the house hideous with his noise and was forever hitting his shuttlecocks about the place.

Flashman at the Charge, p.15/span>, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Brassy enough

Most of the women on the boat were noisy, by the way; the respectable ones clacked and squawked to each other interminably, and the mistresses and whores, of whom there seemed to be a great number, were brassy enough to be heard in San Francisco. Penny (or Jenny) was one of the quieter ones; she didn’t scream with laughter above once a minute.

Flash For Freedom!, p.159, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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