Full of bile

. . . or so I gathered from Burton who was full of bile against the chaps who discovered it. God knows why: he’d ha’ fought with his own shadow, that one.


Flashman on the March, p.131, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Screaming for England

I’d been a political myself, and it’s part of the job to scream at your own shadow…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.31, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Give me the shadow

All I could see was that somehow appearances were heavily on my side – and who needs more than that? Give me the shadow every time, and you can keep the substance – it’s a principle I’ve followed all my life, and it works, if you know how to act on it.

Flashman, p.244, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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