The best kind of Frog

... for he was the best kind of Frog, shrewd and tough as teak, but jolly and with no foolish airs.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.180, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A Palmerston roughneck

…I received his disgusting proposal with the stern, shrewd look of a Palmerston roughneck who took back-shooting in his stride. I may even have growled softly.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.194, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Silence and shrewdness

…silence frequently passes for shrewdness, and that while suppressio veri is a damned good servant, suggestio falsi is a perilous master, Selah.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.262, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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