Then, producing a couple of dogs, he treated one with alcohol and the other with essence of absinthe, this latter being the active principle of the absinthe liquor which is commonly drunk.
Magnan, comparing the chemical action of alcohol and absinthe on man, drew the conclusion that the former acts more slowly, gradually provoking delirium and digestive derangement, whileabsinthe rapidly results in epilepsy.
Surely the "absinthe duel" which is said to have taken place at Cannes, when both the combatants perished after drinking an extraordinary quantity, may be strictly denominated a duel with deadly weapons.
Of course there is undying fame in the future, but then we must have our absinthe in the present.
Absinthe is not a liquor to be drunk hastily, or even to be talked over too much in the drinking.
He sipped his absinthe slowly, as absinthe should be sipped, and it was evident that he was deeply concerned with the problem that confronted his comrade.
The absinthe may have caused the final utter breakdown of Hamilton's self-control here and at Madame Courcy's--but that the desire could be there without it Monte had twice proved to himself that evening.
But it was generally after he had been sipping absinthe rather heavily.
The question that he would most like to answer at this moment was whether this last wild episode of Hamilton's was due to absinthe or to that same weird passion which a few weeks before had led the man to shoot.
He imbibed absinthe with everything he drank, and toabsinthe he united opium.
The suppression of his morning absinthe had been sufficient to cover the modest expense of Pierette's keeping, but how many other reforms were needed to provide for the unforeseen expenses of his bachelor establishment!
When he had nearly poisoned himself with vile absinthe and sickened himself with the conversation of fishwives, he sent for me in despair.
Paragot laughed, drained his glass of absinthe and ordered another.
To have declined to pay for his absinthe or choucroute would have closed the Café Delphine in a student's face.
Master, perhaps absinthe isn't good for it," said I all in a breath.
He does not spit on the floor or spillabsinthe over the counterpane.
Paragot sippedabsinthe and smoked his eternal pipe with the porcelain bowl, and talked.
My little Asticot, I have abjured absinthe and forsworn cafés.
You are a proof to her that I haven't spent all my life in absorbing absinthe and omitting to decorate Europe with palaces.
The one morning absinthe had grown to two or three.
As soon as the absinthe had curdled with the dropping water, he filled up the glass and drank it off.
He returned to Paris, where he found Bakkus wallowing in absintheand philosophic sloth.
Stretching out her wasted arm to the nearly empty absinthebottle by her bed, she made a slightly resentful moue and murmured "Encore une!
Absinthe was her one consolation, together with a miniature of Louis in full regalia.
Your shoulders are flushed velvet, your cheeks are peaches under cream, your eyes are blue absinthe and your mouth a red devil.
Since his discovery of absinthe they had even become rather gross, and he congratulated himself on having seen the sordidness of mere swilling.
He and Harry had been into Genoa a week before, and, out of curiosity, had ordered absinthe at a cafe.
It was absinthe that would help him to fill up those dull hours till dinner-time, and he remembered having seen in some little French restaurant in Soho the stuff he wanted.
Since then, up to the day when he was now expecting her entry for the third act, he had thought over the whole situation with the imaginative vision which absinthe inspired.
Archie felt peculiarly devilish that morning; it rained, and the absinthe that should have arrived last night had not come.
So he must have his absinthe from that restaurant; clearly they had a very good brand of it there.
There is a vast quantity of absinthe consumed in Paris, but it is done quietly and in great moderation.
The devotee of absinthe drinks it as a part of his social system, and generally dies of softening of the brain at about thirty-five.
Tibbitts, whose experience I am relating, said it was much cheaper than Oshkosh whisky, for one night's sitting at absinthe lasted him a week.
The brain-annihilating absintheobtains here, and a seductive fluid it is.
His generous incredulity failed him for this once; a child must have perceived that the Hermitage had completed what the absinthe had begun.
We'll see about that later; in the mean time you can have a chance to sweat some of that absinthe out of you in St. Lazare.
Now, the poor cabman had lost no time fortifying himself with an absinthe or two upon leaving his fare in the terrible Rue Antoine Dubois.
Four or five rough-looking men were lounging about, gossiping over their absinthe or apératif.
The four men hastily gathered up their stakes and began talking about the weather; the subdued camelots sipped their absinthe in silence; the old gentleman fell to reading his paper with renewed interest.
The white glare of electric globes began to flood the streets; and before the cafés, waiters bustled among the tables, bearing the vermouth and absinthe of the hour.
Things must, indeed, be in a bad way if his father drank absintheat half-past ten in the morning.
Then he saw, with something of a shock, that a glass of absinthe stood on the table.
His hunger was now become a deadly thing, for the absinthe was destroying his vitals.
He had heard of the absinthe drinkers of Paris, and he wondered no longer at the deadly fascination of the liquor--not realising that his extreme weakness and the emptiness of his stomach made him peculiarly susceptible to its effects.
He poured out absinthe for himself with shaking fingers, staring back at his companion all the while, watching him, watching him as he drank alone and unnoticed.
Between the two was a pile of money, and near at hand an empty absinthe bottle, a water pitcher, two glasses, and a dice-box.
He mixed two drinks of absintheand water, and the two men lifted their glasses.
Warm the apricots, and put at both ends of the omelet; pour two ponies of absinthe over the top, and light before bringing to the table.
Anisette liqueur may be used in place of the absinthe if more convenient.
Did love trouble him--love could be drowned in absinthe; and too much absinthe may be a more immediate cause of congested lungs than the love which the absinthe had lulled to sleep.
Lying helpless on his bed, he had no desire for orgies at the Maison Doree; with parched lips thirsty for innocent tisane of lime-blossoms, the thought of absinthe was as odious to him as the liquid fire of Phlegethon.
Would it be fair for me to give him a hundred francs for sitting quietly in the office or sipping absinthe at a neighbouring bar whilst I risked New Orleans--not to speak of the gallows?
He would take the opportunity on the way of getting moderately drunk on as many glasses of absinthe as he could afford.
I must hasten away to the dressmaker at once; it might be wiser not--she lay in bed peaceful and beautiful; at the Elysée she would be drinking absinthe and smoking cigarettes until three in the morning.
To avoid dining alone I should not have lingered in St. James's Park, but if I had not lingered I should have missed an exquisite hour of meditation, and meditations are as necessary to me as absinthe to the absinthe-drinker.
A bottle of absinthe stood on a beautiful Empire table that her prince had given her, and Bijou, Clementine's little dog, slept on an embroidered cushion.
The German clerks do not go to the East Coast or to China and South America to drinkabsinthe or whiskey, or to play dominoes or cricket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "absinthe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: color; gin; jade; oil; pigment; spirits; whiskey
