One Big League manager used always to give his men licorice or some other dark and adhesive and juicy substance to chew on a dingy day.
But some eagle-eyed arbiter detected this, and kept pouring new balls into the game when the non-licorice chewers were at the bat, while he saved the discolored ones for the consumption of the masticators.
Pee-wee vaulted up onto the ramshackle fence, placed one of those granite bricks known as a licorice jaw-breaker in his mouth, and prepared for his indefinite vigil.
Pulling out of his pocket a licorice jaw-breaker of vast dimensions, Pee-wee sent it shooting in a bee-line at the face of the stranger.
He said he'd rather spend the twenty-five cents for licorice jaw-breakers and then we'd know what was happening to us.
Little girls hurried across the street, and the jar oflicorice was exhausted.
For that matter, if they came right over, he would take back the tissue-paper and substitute licorice sticks.
There were some figs and a handful of blacklicorice drops and a few nuts.
To-day there were only figs and licorice drops and nuts.
The raisins are to strengthen, the anise is to expel the wind, and the licorice as a physic.
Put one quart hoarhound to one quart water, and boil it down to a pint; add two or three sticks oflicorice and a tablespoonful of essence of lemon.
Dissolve half an ounce of gum and twenty grains of Spanish licorice in thirteen drachms of water, and add one drachm of lampblack, previously mixed with a teaspoonful of sherry.
In some places, particularly in Silesia and Moravia, pieces of licorice root are substituted for willow twigs; or again in the vine-growing districts of Bohemia vine-branches are used for the same purpose.
The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and medicinal purposes.
Angel produced a small bottle of licorice water from his pocket and took a long mouthful.
Licorice root," repeated our governess, in a tone of disgust.
I lingered behind to offer him a suck of a piece of licorice I had.
If you must celebrate his undoing, better take these three sixpences and make yourselves ill on lemon fizz, or pink marshmallows, or vile licorice cigars.
And little Willy Kaatenstein literally waded in gum-drops and long licorice pipes.
There were long licorice pipes enough in the wagon to surfeit the appetites of the four Kaatensteins for many a day, and the name of the gum-drops was legion.
They began the feast with pie; from pie they went at figs; from figs they transferred to the tough little animals; and from that to cookies; and from cookies to long licorice pipes.
Mrs. Kaatenstein's face must need have been a study could she have seen her cherished ducks and geese stuffing their crops with licorice pipes and gum-drops.
He lingered over a piece of blue Stilton cheese, made quick work of a rhubarb tart, and to vary his drinking, quenched his thirst with porter, that dark beer which smells of Spanish licorice but which does not have its sugary taste.
Honest, if you could have seen that kid start off with the note in one hand and that popcorn flag of truce in the other and his mouth all stuck up with licorice candy, you'd have laughed till you cried.
He shouted, "Every new recruit report to the commissary general and receive six rounds of peanuts and three rounds of licorice jaw-breakers.
Gee whiz, I like things that are hard--except licoricejaw breakers.
She must be the infant of whom Licorice spoke: she was then in the cradle, I remember.
She told me that Licorice had been-- not very gentle with her, and had threatened to turn her out of the house the next morning unless she would trample on the cross, as a sign that she abjured all her Christian friends and Christ.
What was that one point which Abraham had distinctly told her she must not know,--which Licorice expressed such anxiety that she should not even guess?
She said she knew Abraham thy father well, and Licorice and Anegay.
Belasez, long years ago, Licoricethy mother did me a cruel wrong.
It gradually dawned upon her that Licorice was going to "get it out of her," and was likewise about to devise a false tale for her especial benefit.
They heard, through neighbours, that Genta was going through all the phases of a tedious illness, and that Licorice was a most attentive and valuable nurse.
And Licorice pushed past her husband, and walked into the room where Bruno was standing.
I stood up from my dead, and I demanded of Licorice why she had done this cruel thing.
And Licorice stood with uplifted hands, gazing on her lord and master in an attitude of pitying astonishment.
I am sorry to add that Belasez instantly counterfeited profound sleep; and Licorice retired with apparent satisfaction.
And suiting the action to the word, Licorice caught up a broom which stood in the corner, and proceeded to apply it with good will.
If he only knew for very certain--of course there was a chance that She did not love licorice sticks.
He sat down in his little rocker and gave himself up to the moment's bliss, first applying his lips with careful exactitude to the dividing-line between Her licorice stick and his.
One package of powdered licorice to use as a laxative.
The licoricewas an extravagance--almost a carouse--but what is life without pleasures?
Another dime was to be added to her small store of savings; and five cents was to be squandered for licorice drops--the kind that made your cheek look like the toothache, and last as long.
In addition, a small piece of licorice may be dissolved in the mouth, which corrects the effects of indigestion.
Licorice has no smell, but simply corrects ill-flavored odor.
The major examines every man; not one is cured, all had been too long gorged with licorice water and deprived of care.
In that vein he passed all the sick in review, prescribing for all, the syphilitics and the wounded, the fevered and the dysentery patients his strong licorice tea.
Coffee, licorice or tobacco may also be used, with good results.
This may be retinted with dark licorice or some suitable color in more or less concentrated solution, mixed sometimes with a little common ink.
The licorice sticks had changed to a rich olive brown and had assumed sufficient rotundity to allow of pink-and-white socks and white ankle-ties.
He had been relieved of the lace and pink ribbons and was swathed only in shirt and roundabout, his arms and legs projected like licorice sticks; being of the same color and very nearly the same thickness.
Upon this platform, in a great tub filled with licorice tea, is set a small image of the infant Buddha.
This licorice tea, through contact with the image, acquires miraculous healing properties, and the devout, after making offerings of money twisted up in white paper, carry away the little buckets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "licorice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
