“‘No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new,’” said Sicily, “‘for he sayeth, The old is better.’”[…]“My memory’s just as good as in my teens. I never dreamt I’d remember that wine-ology parable.”

This horse will do better over the flat.

Where I come from, the word ‘reptile’ is a term of endearment, used in much the same way as ‘toe rag’ or ‘moosh’.

The Tumen river separates Corea from Manchooria, except in the last few miles of its course, when it flows by Russian territory, the south-eastern corner of Siberia. The Yalu river also divides Corea from Manchooria.