English vocabulary examples in context: absinthe
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 1.
It is at Brussels that the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are all the useful notions.
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 2.
Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies.
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 3.
It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed.
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 4.
He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of 'dead drunk.' The hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a lethargy.
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 5.
On this day, the engineer, seeing a plant belonging to the wormwood genus, the principal species of which are absinthe, balm-mint, tarragon, etc.
Vocabulary in context: absinthe -- Example 6.
Several years later a French traveler, Paul Marcoy, went out to examine the color of the waters of this tributary, which has been graphically compared to the cloudy greenish opal of absinthe.
