blood-and-iron

Updated: August 16, 2026

And so he remained to favour the mess with his somewhat blood-and-iron jokes. The mess-room was a spacious hall, and though only three men sat at table the place seemed full of life and colour from the black polished flooring to the carved and vaulted ceiling, from which hung in tattered folds the old banners of the regiment.

Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard - A Modern Mercenary