Words can put you on the run

It was like talking to a backward Bushman.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.233, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Keeping secrets

…a pleasant fellow enough, but as garrulous as a Welsh parson, and I’d sooner trust a secret to Elspeth.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.239, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Curious American compulsion

…I didn’t overhear much more, for young Anderson, who was seated next to me, had that curious American compulsion to tell you his life-story, as well as his views on everything under the sun.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.216, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Rhubarb

He was still chuntering when we reached my door…


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.111, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.




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Lecturing interminably

…conversation consisted of Brooke lecturing interminably; like most active men. he had all the makings of a thoroughgoing bore.

Flashman's Lady, p.135, Pan edition, 1979.

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Any sensible man

Now that’s the kind of talk that sends any sensible man diving for his hat and the nearest doorway, usually; otherwise you find yourself an hour later scribbling IOUs and trying to think of a false name.

Flashman's Lady, p.63, Pan edition, 1979.

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Sheer fury

…Carmichael-Smith could hardly talk for sheer fury, but he cussed us something primitive…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.145, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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He'd still be employable today

Mangles, at the Board of Control in London, had described it as ‘tranquil beneath the Company’s benevolent rule’, but he was a pompous ass with a talent for talking complete bosh on subjects on which he was an authority.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.65, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Cardinal folly

Master Ignatieff might be a clever and devilish dangerous man, but he had at least one of the besetting weaknesses of youth: he was as vain as an Etonian duke, and it led him to commit the cardinal folly in a diplomatic man. He talked too much.

Flashman at the Charge, p.207, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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