Positively the sea itself looked like absinthe, green and bitter and poisonous.

Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe.

Sometimes a perfume like absinthe sweetened all the air.

I like absinthe, says this 21st-century musical Medusa.

Do you like absinthe?

There is nothing like absinthe to sharpen one's wits, and I see that you and I are going to have a delightful game.

It's like absinthe that turns you sick at the beginning and that you can't do without once you have got the taste of it.

There is nothing to sharpen a man's wits like absinthe, and I see that you and I are going to have a delightful game.