tansies
- plural of tansy.
Example Sentences
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"I have picked some field tansies," she went on, with some animation.
From The Rendezvous 1907 by Bernstein, Herman
Like banners unfurled The skies dip and flourish— The keen breezes nourish, While the bright world Is a ribbon unrolled With a border of grasses; And tansies are masses And splotches of gold.
From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis
On every hillside, and in every valley, stood countless asters, coreopses, tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers, like Brahminical devotees, turning steadily with their luminary from morning till night.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
The air is balmy; the smiling lawns are gay with a thousand little flowers, dandelions, rock-roses, tansies and daisies, among which the harvesting Bee rolls gleefully, covering herself with pollen.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
It is of these people Sir Kenelm Digby’s book reminds us, and even the names of his recipes are soothing reading—syllabubs, hydromel, mead, quidannies, tansies, slipp-coat-cheeses, manchets, and so forth.
From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
