“I bumped into the sergeant of the guard, accidental-a-purpose. A waxed-moustached old turnip-head who's so damned military he probably rides his wife by the numbers — almost ruptured himself comin’ to attention when I happened by.”
Flashman and the Tiger,
p.123,
Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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