For a while the woods faded away, and in that tangled clearing rose the towers of Notre Dame, and the Seine glittered on under its great bridges, and again the world smelled of absinthe, and picturesque madmen gesticulated in clouds of tobacco smoke, and propounded fantastic philosophies amid the rattle of dominoesand afar off in the street a voice was crying "Haricots verts!"

emerald, verd antique [Fr.], verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine; absinthe, cr=eme de menthe

Thus Alfred de Musset as the slave to absinthe sounds much more poetic than, say, Alfred de Musset as a slave to rum or gin, or even this brandy here.

Yet this, too, is no less the stuff that dreams are made of; and the opium-eater, the absinthe-sipper, the brandy-drinker, are all members of the same great brotherhood of tragic idealists" He talked deliberately; but there was a smile playing at the corners of the mouth which took from his talk the sense of a painful self-revelation, and gave it the air of a playful fantasia upon a paradox that for the moment amused him.

" It is stated by observant flâneurs that much absinthe is consumed by ladies who frequent fashionable up-town restaurants.

One lovely blonde has grown so absinthe-minded from the habit, that she regularly leaves the restaurant without paying for her luncheon.

* * "AB" I. Absinthe's a cunning word Dram-drinkers to entice, It comes from a Greek root which means The opposite of nice. II.

But slakes the drouth of his awful mouth With pulls at the absinthe bottle.

On his primitive, out-of-door, fox-hunting mind the ethics of suicide lay as uneasily as absinthe on the stomach of a baby.

The bottles of liquor on the shelf were rarely taken down, except on Sundays, when villagers might saunter in, to gossip and smoke over coffee and eau de vie, or the glass of absinthe, which, since the failure of the vines in the South of France, has become there the most convivial of all drinks, although it makes men more quarrelsome than any other.

He would empty into a very large punch-bowl champagne, beer, absinthe, claret, whisky and any other boissons, and drink the compound from a goblet.

No, make it straight absinthe.

Bring me a double absinthe!" Joseph fetched the drink hurriedly, and stopped to pick up the broken glass.

He was inclined to doze off whenever he sat down; the raucous noises of the city no longer jarred or startled him, and his surroundings were becoming unreal, grotesque, as if seen through the spell of absinthe.

Through its dense clouds the sky was beginning to shed a gray, wan light, under which the vast, watery plain took on the whitish color of absinthe.

None of the other menexcept the cavalry officer, who drew in his legs slightlytook the slightest interest in this poor wretcha handsome lad with square-cut features and fair tousled hair, who had tried to get courage out of absinthe before leaving for the war.

In seaport villages and towns which smell of tar and nets and absinthe and stale wine I saw horses stabled in every inn-yard; streets were littered with straw, and English soldiers sauntered about within certain strict boundaries, studying picture postcards and giving the "glad eye" to any little French girl who peeped at them through barred windows.

He started violently when we hailed him, and stared at us as nightmare creatures in a bad dream after an absinthe orgy.

In the morning that of eggs frizzling in butter, the pungent cigarette, coffee and bad cognac; at five o'clock the fragrant odour of absinthe; and soon after the steaming soup ascends from the kitchen; and as the evening advances, the mingled smells of cigarettes, coffee, and weak beer.

On the pavement just under our window were seated the usual crowd of Boulevard idlers, sipping their al fresco absinthe, and grog-au-vin.

Most probably there's a fête going on somewhere, if we only knew where," "Can't we find out?" "Oh, yeswe can drop into a Café and look at the Petites Affiches; only that entails an absinthe; or we can go into the nearest Omnibus Bureau and see the notices on the walls, which will be cheaper.

All Paris will throng to your fêtes next Sunday and Mondayall Paris, with its inexhaustible appetite for bifteck aux pommes fritesall Paris with its unquenchable thirst for absinthe and Bavarian beer!

Just in front of this alcove and below the bust stood a marble-topped table, at one end of which two young men were playing dominoes to the accompaniment of the matutinal absinthe.

Horace, hasn't that absinthe given you an inconvenient amount of appetite?

And when the absinthe is paid for, I haven't a sou.