Sundry viragos

…I sat grimly on, wishing I’d gone into Holy Orders and ignoring the blandishments of sundry viragos of the sort you can have for fourpence with a mutton pie and a pint of beer thrown in, but better not, for the pie meat’s sure to be off.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.171, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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No doubt significant

She fussed over me in a way none of the others – wife, aunts, mistresses, whores, legions of them – had ever done. It’s strange, and no doubt significant, that the warmest leave-taking I remember should be from a bawdy-house.

Flash For Freedom!, p.143, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Where would Flash be?

I kept my whiskers, of course – where would Flash be without his tart-catchers?

Flash For Freedom!, p.136, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Rude with impunity

But in my youth and ignorance I imagined that he was one of those to whom I could be rude with impunity – servants, tarts, bagman, shopkeepers, and foreigners…

Royal Flash, p.11, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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