Absinthe ingredient

Usage examples of aniseed.

Street-vendors appear from under the scaffold to offer mugs of water and aniseed, pushing and jostling past sellers of bread and offal, of boiled squid and cactus fruit.

The boat oscillates gently on the waves with its cargo of lights, bodies dressed up for a festival, slices of water-melon, bottles of aniseed water.

We think she has been stolen by a man who had put aniseed on his clothing.

Anubis ignored the entrance to the zigzag path and at first Susan thought that the smell of aniseed must have vanished in the keen morning air, and that the hounds, having nothing to guide them, were now intent on their accustomed run on the moor and were heading for their usual playground.

Sekhmet had never attempted to attack anybody, but had been fascinated by the smell of the aniseed which had been sprinkled lavishly on the trousers.

He had a dog of his own and knew that dog-stealers often sprayed aniseed on their trousers.

The smell of aniseed would have attracted the other hounds as much as it did Sekhmet, but, of course, the answer is that all the Pharaohs were shut safely away, so Sekhmet was the only dog available.

I went straight to the stable yard, but the hounds were all right, although, of course, very restless and excited because they could smell the aniseed, too, so then I thought I had better check on Sekhmet.

Let us forget the aniseed and come to what you were doing before you reached Crozier Lodge.

To make the essence of Aniseed one part of the oil should be mixed with four parts of spirit of wine.

For infantile catarrh, after its first feverish stage, Aniseed tea is very useful.

The Germans have an almost superstitious belief in the medicinal virtues of Aniseed, and all their ordinary household bread is plentifully flavoured with the whole seeds.

Besides containing the volatile oil, Aniseed yields phosphates, malates, gum, and a resin.

For the restlessness of languid digestion, a dose of essence of Aniseed in hot water at bedtime is much to be commended.

As a carminative injection for tiresome flatulence, it has been found eminently beneficial to employ Chamomile flowers boiled in tripe broth, and strained through a cloth, and with a few drops of the oil of Aniseed added to the decoction.