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George Macdonald Fraser had a wicked sketch of Harlan in Flashman and the Mountain of Light, where the good doctor did a cameo as a man who played both sides false, in style.
Archive 2004-05-01 2004
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Now, "says he, looking leery," I don't know what you and Bismarck and the guv'nor were up to in Strackenz years ago, but when Bismarck heard the name Flashman, he sat up straight - didn't he, Kralta? "
Watershed 2010
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Now, "says he, looking leery," I don't know what you and Bismarck and the guv'nor were up to in Strackenz years ago, but when Bismarck heard the name Flashman, he sat up straight - didn't he, Kralta? "
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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And then, wonder of wonders, papers would be found in my clothing to suggest that I wasn't Prince Carl at all, but a daring English impostor called Flashman, an agent of Lord Palmerston, if you please, and up to God-knows-what mischief against the security and well-being of the Duchy of Strackenz.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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The great mass of manuscript known as the Flashman Papers was discovered during a sale of household furniture at Ashby, Leicestershire, in 1965.
Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969
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I don't know if I should feel ashamed or not, but I have no idea who "Flashman" is.
Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys jmnlman 2010
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"The Order o 'the Victoria Cross," says he, and then he added, "Flashman ...", but there he stopped and shook his head.
Fiancée 2010
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Similarly, RTSC's Country Manager told a USTC Vice President in a telephone conversation occurring at approximately between 1000 and 1100 hours (EDT) on 29 April 2009, that he had a "case of Corona" beer in his room and looked forward to a toast to "Flashman" (a character in a loaned book from the USTC Vice President).
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Similarly, RTSC's Country Manager told a USTC Vice President in a telephone conversation occurring at approximately between 1000 and 1100 hours (EDT) on 29 April 2009, that he had a "case of Corona" beer in his room and looked forward to a toast to "Flashman" (a character in a loaned book from the USTC Vice President).
David Isenberg: The Get Out of Jail and Stay on Contract Free Card 2010
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The "Flashman" novels of George MacDonald Fraser, who died earlier this month at the age of 82, pass one of the great reading tests.
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