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"I have picked some field tansies," she went on, with some animation.

From The Rendezvous 1907 by Bernstein, Herman

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

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

Among Composites may be mentioned the tansies, Saussureas, and the fine Erigeron multiradiatus common in the forest above Narkanda.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

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