Dam’ few crowned heads

      And their Christianity don't run to morality, not far at least. They lie and deceive with a will, drink to excess, slaughter each other for amusement, and the women couple like stoats. The corollary to their adage that ‘a virtuous woman is a crown to husband’ is that there are dam’ few crowned heads in Abyssinia, and hear, hear! say I, for ’twould be a cruel shame to have all that splendid married pulchritude going to waste.



Flashman on the March, p.22, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


(With thanks to Dundrillon for suggesting this quote.)


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Racing feet

. . . there was the crash of a door being hurled back, feet racing on the stairs — and General Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., K.B, K.C.I.E., was into that closet like an electrifies stoat . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.307, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Out from under

I was out from under the canopy like a startled stoat...

Flashman and the Redskins, p.244, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Quivering setter, thrashing stoat

She did him proud, too, with a strapping blonde wench – satin boots and all – and at the sight of her Willy moaned feverishly and pointed, quivering, like a setter. He was trying to clamber all over her almost before the door was closed, and of course he made a fearful mess of it, thrashing away like a stoat in a sack, and getting nowhere.

Flashman at the Charge, p.40, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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