Handsome, cruel, and bloodthirsty

      To begin with, you must understand that the Abyssinians are like no other Africans, being some kind of Semitic folk who came from Arabia in the far-off time, handsome, cruel, and bloodthirsty, but civilised beyond any in the continent bar the Egyptians . . .


Flashman on the March, p.22, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Fine-looking fellows

...they were strapping, fine-looking fellows, but you'd not have trusted either of them to light the fire.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.228, Harper Collins, 1995.


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The highest honour

We shook hands, and he drove off. I never spoke to him again. Years later, though, I told the American general, Robert Lee, of the incident, and he said Wellington was right – I had received the highest honour any soldier could hope for. But it wasn’t the medal; for Lee’s money it was Wellington’s hand.
  Neither, I may point out, had any intrinsic value.

Flashman, p.276, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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A fine manikin

‘A fine manikin, is he not?’ said Gul Shah, regarding the hideous imp. ‘Your soul must be as handsome, Flashman.’

Flashman, p.130, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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