Too thick to drink

I remember what Sam Grant said about it [the Mississippi River] : ‘Too thick to drink and too thin to plough. It stinks.’ Not that he’d have drunk it anyway, unless it had been pure corn liquor from Cairo down.

Flash For Freedom!, pp.164-65, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Whining and dining

All told it was as pleasant a meal as one could have in the presence of a terrifying ogre, with the blood still sticky before his feet, and the foul stench of the death-house all around.

Flash For Freedom!, p.78, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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