Avitabile

When I was a brat of a boy I went through hot hell in Afghanistan, had a fort collapse on me, and broke my thigh-and a few weeks later I was fit enough to gallop an Afghan wench with my leg in a splint and old Avitabile egging me on, and get beastly drunk afterwards.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

So that way we went, and cold it was by night, but I didn't have nightmares, waking or sleeping, all the way to the Khyber and the winding road down to Peshawar, where I said goodbye to my escort and rode under the arch where Avitabile used to hang the Gilzais, and so into the presence of a young whipper-snapper of a Company ensign.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

“Abu Tabilah,” (General Avitabile), whom report had led to the banks of the Nile.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

They squinted out of their frames on a great, noisy, reek-filled chamber — Ventura, Allard, Court, and even my old chum Avitabile, looking like the Italian bandit he was with his tasselled cap and spiky moustachioes.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

They squinted out of their frames on a great, noisy, reek-filled chamber - Ventura, Allard, Court, and even my old chum Avitabile, looking like the Italian bandit he was with his tasselled cap and spiky moustachioes.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner, "Gurdana Khan" (1785-1877), is an extraordinary figure even for an age and region which saw such adventurers as "Sekundar" Burnes, Count Ignatieff, Yakub Beg, Pottinger, Connolly, Avitabile, and John Nicholson.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

When I was a brat of a boy I went through hot hell in Afghanistan, had a fort collapse on me, and broke my thigh-and a few weeks later I was fit enough to gallop an Afghan wench with my leg in a splint and old Avitabile egging me on, and get beastly drunk afterwards.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

When I was a brat of a boy I went through hot hell in Afghanistan, had a fort collapse on me, and broke my thigh-and a few weeks later I was fit enough to gallop an Afghan wench with my leg in a splint and old Avitabile egging me on, and get beastly drunk afterwards.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Didn't Avitabile travel clear from Lisbon to Paris, an 'I didn't pay one night's lodging, not-a one, you bet.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Avitabile was absolutely right, you see; if you manage to get round a madame, you're made.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971