Bayete, Udloko

Moran reversed his revolver in his hand and pushed it into the back of his sash. Then he tilted his hat back and flicked his forefinger at its brim.
       “Bayete, Udloko,” says he softly. “I do like a snap shot, though. Give the gentleman a coconut.”


Flashman and the Tiger, p.286, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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Between terror and sheer admiration

He hit three more Zulus — this at a range of two hundred yards, from a wagon that was bucking like a ship at sea, and at moving targets. I tell you, I was stricken between terror and sheer admiration.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.284, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Good men

'Could we not hold Kabul?' I asked. 'Surely with a force of five thousand it should be possible against undisciplined savages.'

'These savages are good men,' says he [Broadfoot]. 'Better shots than we are, for one thing.'



Flashman, p.87, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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