"Anise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a practically colorless liquor distilled from various grains and flavored with oil of juniper or some other flavoring substance, such as anise, orange peel, or fennel. It contains from 30 to 40 per cent. of alcohol. It is usually stored in glass bottles, which do not impart ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
... little favored by ladies on this side the water, though it is occasionally indulged in by a few. The enthusiasm, however, of a ride to hounds is much dampened by the knowledge that an anise-seed bag, instead of a fox, furnishes the scent over which the hounds give eager tongue. Those who attempt to hunt must be at home ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... Of anise and of cumin the Master gets His tithe—" Maudelain broke off with a yapping laugh. "Puf! Heaven is wiser than we. I am King of England. It is ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell |
