Aster relative

Usage examples of tansy.

I keep in health by eating plentifully of herbs sage, rue, tansy, marjoram, southernwood, lemon-balm, mint, fennel and parsley.

By that time the tansy mustard is long gone, the amaranth too large to be palatable, but there are lambsquarters, dock, filaree, and so forth.

Anna smiled back at him, and Helen ran over to watch the bubbling dye pot, this day stewing yarn to a strong tansy yellow.

Tansy screams and cringes, instinctively shielding her face, but Gorg doesn't come near her.

When Tansy heads for the truck bed (which already holds two men and one hefty female in a white rayon waitress's uniform), Doodles steers her toward the cab.

There was no breeze and the air was full of the sweet, chrysanthemum-like smell of the flowering compositae of dry uplands--corn chamomile, yarrow and tansy.

If asked, Tansy would have said she was too stoned to be frightened, but this is apparently not so, because she gives out a disconcerted little cry and takes a step backward.

Tansy especially, he was sure, had at first found everything nerveracking: the keen-honed faculty rivalries, the lip-service to all species of respectability, the bland requirement (which would have sent a simple mechanic into spasms) that faculty wives work for the college out of pure loyalty, the elaborate social responsibilities, and the endless chaperoning of resentfully fawning students (for Hempnell was one of those colleges which offer anxious parents an alternative to the unshepherded freedom of what Norman recalled a local politician having described as “those hotbeds of communism and free love”—the big metropolitan universities).

Around it bloomed a wild garden, filled with wildflowers and herbs: echinacea, tansy, and Joe-Pye weed.

Beneath them she found small woven pouches containing flower petals or juniper berries, and beneath these but terwort, betony, and mint leaves, the bundled stalks of tansy and five-leafed silverweed, as well as lavender so fragile that it crumbled at a touch.

Tansy hammered at the piano and they sang a crazy assortment of songs, folk songs, hymns, national anthems, workers’.

He reviewed the appropriate herbs to relieve palpitations, whitehorn, adonis, glovecap, tansy, aconite, and decided on the latter, the old reliable root.

He reviewed the appropriate herbs to relieve palpitations: whitehom, adonis, glovecap, tansy, aco nite, and decided on the latter, the old reliable root.

Tansy Freneau pushes herself off the door and takes two light, delicate steps toward him.

Tansy Gelcress struggled with wet clothing, flapping rain cape, and a basket she didn’.