I remark on the pungent foliage, and smartly share my knowledge that the word tansy comes from the French word for “nose-twister.”. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
She says a plant is fernleaf yarrow, I say it's tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
Here, take a little and chew it; isn't it like tansy? ''. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
Then comes wild lettice an 'tansy-tea -- that's fur May. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
I made the nettle tea for the party, too, and some tansy. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
He had come to like the smell of tansy again — let that pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
I have tansy coming up through layers of cardboard and woodchips. From Wordnik.com. [The Volunteer Gravel State « Fairegarden] Reference
From the mint-bed and the tansy, as it floated through the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
That is well said, said Friar John now, this is something like a tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
I came to hunt for some simples ... for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
He carried her to the house and set her down in a patch of tansy by the stoop. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
I love tansy though, but have to fear anything that comes up through cardboard!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volunteer Gravel State « Fairegarden] Reference
He smiled down at me, taking the basket while I stooped to pull up a stalk of tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Of course, Lysa does not have lots more kids; the tansy tea likely damaged her fertility. From Wordnik.com. [Which episode will GRRM write?] Reference
I used 'tansy tea' -- heap o 'little root -- made black pepper tea, fotch de pains on' em. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The tansy was an omelette of another description, made chiefly with eggs and chopped herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
They all said aloud, These are the fees, these are the gloves; now, this is somewhat like a tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Don't confuse tansy with tansy ragwort, which has been fatal to cows that have eaten it growing nearby. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Minutes]
Dear Lucy, Lady Radclyffe, you know, used to swear by my tansy tea-a wonderful thing for a cold in the head. From Wordnik.com. [Partners In Crime]
I mean, even tansy was so excited, telling me how she never stopped looking at mr yap, and moved with the music!. From Wordnik.com. [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference
The resulting heap comprised a handful of tansy and one carefully rolled-up sheet of lavender-tinted stationery. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
Us had medicine made from herbs, leaves and roots; some of them was cat-nip, garlic root, tansy, and roots of burdock. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
You could not have got me into this bed, even if the entire mattress were stuffed with strong repellent herbs like tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
She played the guitar and talked readily; moreover, she did not smell of tansy, but of real scent, the sort you buy in shops. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
Teas, compounded from sage, boneset, tansy, and mullen, usually sufficed for any minor sickness, and serious illness was rare. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Now add to it ten drops of the oil of tansy and forty-five drops of the oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
I've got a plenty, tansy an 'sage, an' you know it. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
Mam 'Chloe had given me tansy tea for a bad cold last winter. From Wordnik.com. [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference
Week, tansy-pudding on Easter Sunday, three-cornered cakes on Trinity. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady Ludlow] Reference
First, I picked the pigweed and tansy, or how could she have made the cheese?. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
The china asters bloomed; the sun drew out the odours of thyme and rue and tansy. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Lord Barrymore, a veteran warrior and a person of strong mind, swooned at the sight of tansy. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Mary said Joanna Falls washed her face and hands every night of her life in tansy and buttermilk. From Wordnik.com. [In Orchard Glen] Reference
"But the blue-bell and the little wild tansy," said the oak tree; "I should like them with me too.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sand-Hills of Jutland] Reference
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