More like a vulture

Mrs Morrison, who in defiance of probability had grown with the years even more like a vulture, gave a gasp of disgust…

Royal Flash, p.58, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Fading beauty

Four heads inclined in reply, and one nodded - this was Mistress Morrison, a tall, beak-nosed female in whom one could detect all the fading beauty of a vulture.





Flashman, p. 54, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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