aniseed ball
aniseed candy

The problem was solved when aniseed balls belonging to one of Clarke's children were tried.

You could fill your pockets while the woman counted your aniseed balls.

Keep three or four aniseed balls in a small pocket and drop a couple near the offending dog.'

A problem with underwater limpet mines in the second world war was solved by aniseed balls, I am told.

Helga brings them along to the woods, in order for them to pick up the scent of the aniseed balls.

'I can smell aniseed balls,' the Mayor exclaimed.

These aniseed comfits seem to be a precursor of modern aniseed balls.

Aniseed balls that is.

Like an aniseed ball, the mix of pop tunes and ballads are pleasant and consistent throughout, but at the same time never too adventurous.

Most of the money collected was given to the war effort and a bag of gobstoppers and aniseed balls was bought with the rest.

A similar sweet is "bulls-eye" which has black and white stripes like a humbug but is spherical like an aniseed ball.

The aroma evoked the sights and sounds of childhood - aniseed balls clicking against molars like billiard balls on the green baize cloth.

At the German headquarters, four of Bertorelli's men are equipped with British uniforms (complete with false moustaches and smoke pipes) and aniseed balls.

The innovative design included a ring of small strong magnets for adhesion and the detonator used slowly dissolving aniseed ball sweets to provide the necessary time to get away.

Aniseed balls are a type of hard round sweet sold in the UK, Malta, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Their parents believed them and went looking for Eric, to find him doing the same thing with an old mongrel he had tempted with aniseed balls sweeties, and caught.

They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion, though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges.

In order for the Germans not to lose them when the resistance have picked them up, they will be outfitted with aniseed balls, which they will drop every ten meters.

The mines were going off too early, but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective, for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature.

The aniseed ball was located at the base of a short tube projecting from the mine casing and a waterproof cap was required which could he removed when the limpet mine was affixed to the enemy ship.

Ariadne's paragraph on dissolving aniseed balls used as timing devices in a World War II limpet mine (10 March p 700), recalls to mind another technical feature of this mine which may be of interest.

He suddenly took my arm again, arresting us both, and leaned forward so that I could smell the aniseed candy on his breath.