Bloody murder

...I tried to take stock of what was, you'll allow, an unusual situation. Here I was, in the summer residence of the Emperor of Austria, loaded for bear, waiting for bloody murder to break out in his policies...


Flashman and the Tiger, p.130, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Flashman on extraordinary circumstances

...whatever happens to you, however far-fetched, you get used to eventually, I’ve found...

Royal Flash, p.132, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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