tansy

How to use tansy in a sentence

• She had one in her hand now, and was wondering if ever any one had a dress of green velvet, tansy-color, with gold buttons.

  Narcissa, or the Road to Rome | Laura E. Richards

• Later she went out beside the west fence and gathered an armful of tansy which she boiled to a thick green tea.

  A Girl Of The Limberlost | Gene Stratton Porter

• Plants of pinnated leaves, as the tansy, are more sensible than these to the effects of light.

  Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease | John Grove

• tansy tea; Infusum tanaceti, L. From the dried herb, or the green herb using double the quantity.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• The china asters bloomed; the sun drew out the odours of thyme and rue and tansy.

  The Long Roll | Mary Johnston