Fit to ride

Their cavalry . . . well, it was fit to ride over Napoleon.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.59, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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The Australian Ideal

      She fulfilled, you see, four of the five conditions necessary for what may be called the Australian Ideal — she was an immensely rich, stunningly beautiful, highly-skilled professional amorist with the sexual appetite of a pagan princess; she did not own a public house.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.231, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Tossing oranges

…a line of Probyn’s riders, Sikhs and Afghans in shirt-sleeves, taking turns to ride full tilt past an officer who was tossing oranges in the air — they were taking ’em with their sabres on the fly, roars of applause greeting each successful cut.
      “Fane’s boys will be doing it with grapes tomorrow, I expect,” says Probyn.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.157, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.


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Flashy’s boy, no error

Good actor, too—aye, it all fitted, the skill in histrionics and dissimulation, the delight in twisting the victim’s tail, the mockery, the cool damn-you cut of his jib, the callous way he talked of things other youngsters would have been ashamed of. Oh, he was Flashy’s boy, no error—even if I hadn’t sold his mama down the river, there’d have been no touching reunion between father and son. We ain’t cut out for affection, much, our lot.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.338, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Bit of extra side

…for I like to see a man who’s good at something, doing it, and throwing on a bit of extra side, just for show.

Flash For Freedom!, p.165, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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