A cold tub and a ten-mile walk

He was as tall as I was, brown-faced and square-chinned, with a keen look about him, as though he couldn’t wait to have a cold tub and a ten-mile walk. A Christian, I shouldn’t wonder, and no smoking the day before the match.

Flashman's Lady, p.15, Pan edition, 1979.

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See him still

I can see him still, arms akimbo, flashing eyes, curly head, brilliant smile, and ready to set fire to an orphan asylum to light his cheroot.

Royal Flash, p.220, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Puffing at a cheroot

And after this, to show what he thought, he took his blankets into the council and lay on them throughout, puffing at a cheroot and sniffing loudly whenever Elphy said anything unusually foolish; he sniffed a great deal.

Flashman, p.167, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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