…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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