bull-with-a-beard's

Updated: June 20, 2025

King asked him, trying a new line. "Bull-with-a-beard's." "And whose man art thou, Ismail?" The Afridi hesitated, and when he spoke at last there was not quite the same assurance in his voice as once there had been. "I am hers! Be thou hers, too! But it is night. Sleep against the toil tomorrow. There be many sick in Khinjan."

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles