Shaken and desperate

. . . if it had shaken him to the point where I was his dear Harry, he must be desperate. I'd steered him out of more than one scrape in the past, and here he was again, looking at me like an owl in labour.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.216, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Flashman, friend of the worker

…the coolies could be seen languidly pursuing the only two occupations known to the Chinese peasant: to wit, standing stock-still up to the knees in paddy-water holding a bullock on a rope, or shifting mud very slowly from one point to another. Deny them these employments, and they would simply lie down and die, which a good many of them seemed to do anyway.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.19, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.

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A certain look

He grimaced like a sow in labour…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.123, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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