[Of a Persian wine] One name for this wine was 黑水晶 black crystal; it has also been confused with koumiss.

To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

It would be alarming and disconcerting if people sleeping on roll-mats in central London emerged from their bivvies at breakfast, box-fresh, and sporting a crease down each leg of their slacks.

Noghai also campaigned in Hungary as a partisan of that country's eccentric Mongolophile ruler Bela IV (1284-5). In his relations with the Saray khanate Noghai was, in the end, less fortunate.