Showing posts with label quartermaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quartermaster. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
A quartermaster’s nightmare
It was a quartermaster’s nightmare, too much gear coming ashore too quickly and nowhere to put it, with confusion worse confounded by the milling mob of what someone called the “pierhead democracy” . . .
Flashman on the March, p.28, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, confusion.
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confuse,
democracy,
mob,
quartermaster,
turn of phrase
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