Where all the monkeys throw nuts

      If you’ve never travelled in jungle you may be under a false impression, thanks to the tales of blowhards who’ll tell you how they’ve hacked their way through impenetrable undergrowth and been lucky to make two miles a day battling snakes and great hairy spiders. Well, such jungles do exist, and sufficiently hellish it is, as I should know who have gone my mile in Borneo and the Fly River country, but as a rule it ain’t so thick, and what you have to look out for is where you’re putting your feet.


Flashman on the March, p.134, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Splendid in her malice

Quite splendid in her malice, she was; I’d not have been surprised if her braids had stood on end and hissed at me.


Flashman on the March, p.121, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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A besotted grandparent

I’d much have preferred going to watch Nala Damajanti and her Amazing Snakes at the Palace, or the corsetted fat bottoms and tits in George Edwardes’ show, but being a besotted grandparent I’d have let my little Selina coax me into watching three hours of steady rain and been happy.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.289, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Curmudgeonly grunts

…the curmudgeon only grunted: “The Sikh speaks, the cobra spits — who grows fat on the difference?”


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.56, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.


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Flashman gets snakey

      ‘Colonel Fwashman!’ he cried. ‘You are a viper!’
       I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me – he shot too damned straight for that.
       ‘Indeed, my lord,’ says I. ‘Yet I don’t wriggle and turn.’

Flashman in the Great Game, p.17, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Even slimy little snakes

Now, if I’d been as wise then as I am now, I’d have remembered that even as slimy a snake as Bryant still has fangs…

Flash For Freedom!, pp.28-29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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