tansies

I can smell the sharp reek of those tansies, warring with the reek of tramps.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Near by, a deep bed of tansies was growing; it seems to me that even now

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Near by, a deep bed of tansies was growing; it seems to me that even now I can smell the sharp reek of those tansies, warring with the reek of tramps.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

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

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

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.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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

The Rendezvous 1907 Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

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.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

Selden ( "Table Talk") says: "Our tansies at Easter have reference to the bitter herbs."

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1661/62 Pepys, Samuel 1662

And in the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-tansies; for being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off, and their guts taken out, and not washed after, they prove excellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy; thus used they make a dainty dish of meat.

The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

I hear the pancake bell, "said Poor Richard in his almanack, 1684; alluding to pancakes then made with Coltsfoot, like tansies, and fried with saged butter.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie