The dried flowering tops of tansy and wormwood, and the flowers of chamomile, equal parts; mix, and keep them in a close vessel.
Or, Put Tansy Leaves about different parts of the bed, viz.
I cannot imagine who he may be, but I was pleased to see his toast followed in my pet daily by an "ad" for a tansy compound warranted to "give relief from painful and irregular periods regardless of cause.
It is a trifle difficult to determine whether he was pregnant with a great idea or full o' prunes--whether he needed a tansy compound or a cathartic.
When they grew bigger, and wanted to smell nice for going to church, the thing was to rub oneself with a little tansy that grew on the hillside.
He had come to like the smell of tansy again--let that pass.
And yet he was not above such simple ways as going up the hillside for tansy to rub with so as to smell nice in church.
I'll get a good hot mustard plaster outside, and calomel and castor oil inside, and tansy tea to quiet him, and I guess he'll live awhile yet.
If you've got any tansy in the garden, Betty, I'd like to take it down.
The roadside was parched under an August sun; tansy was dust-covered, and ferns had grown ragged and gray.
Sir laid dead, an' they sent me down here to pick tansy to put round him.
The Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) is common in the hedgerows of most localities, and is easily recognised by the powerful odour and bitter taste of its leaves and flowers.
TANSY The Tansy is to be found in hedge-banks, and by the roadside, or on the borders of the fields in many places all over the country, though in the North it is not very common.
The Tansy has a strong scent, especially when you crush its leaves or stalks.
The Tansy has a short, green stem rising stiff and straight from the ground, and this stem branches at the top into three or four forks.
The Tansy found in this coffin, placed there more than two centuries ago, still retained its shape and scent.
No doubt Tansy was among the earliest plants brought over by the settlers; it was carefully cherished in the herb garden, then spread to the dooryard and then to farm lanes.
The name Tansy was given afterward to a rich fruit cake which had no Tansy in it.
One elderly friend writes me: "I never see the leaves of Tansy without recalling also the pale dead faces I have so often seen encircled by the dank, ugly leaves.
Tansy bitters were made of Tansy leaves placed in a bottle with New England rum.
As early as 1746 the traveller Kalm noted Tansy growing wild in hedges and along roads in Pennsylvania.
Parson Mather givesTansy and Caraway as remedies for the hiccough, but far better still--spiders, prepared in various odious ways; I prefer Dill.
This use of Tansy at funerals lingered long in country neighborhoods in New England, in some vicinities till fifty years ago.
The leaves of Tansy are also vividly described as "infinitely jagged and nicked and curled with all like unto a plume of feathers.
To many older persons the Tansy is therefore so associated with grewsome sights and sad scenes, that they turn from it wherever seen, and its scent to them is unbearable.
In the same county, a cure for ague consists in wearing a leaf of tansy in the shoe.
Some people wear a leaf of tansy in their shoes, and others consider pills made of a spider's web equally efficacious, one pill being taken before breakfast for three successive mornings.
Remarkable events, every one; but it was the tansy cheese which decided me at last, and I told father he might go without me; I wanted to stay and make a visit.
While I watched him he stretched himself as a baby at awakening, and began to crawl weakly toward the tansy bed.
Mam' Chloe had given me tansy tea for a bad cold last winter.
Besides the firewood we find on the tender a barrel of rainwater and a tall, blonde jar with wicker-work around it, which contains a small sprig of tansy immersed in four gallons of New England rum.
Then Jean would go out and pull the tansy at the door, and give it to the little one to get the fine scent.
The tansy fell out of her fingers, and she picked at the wool of the plaid that wrapped her; the shells had no charm for her eye.
Abraham would give one exasperated glance at the tin cup and mutter into the depths of his beard: "Tansy tea an' old women!
She made him sometansy tea, but neither her persuasions nor those of the whole household could induce him to take it.
The tansy leaves had printed their exact shapes in a dark brown color all over the back, which had lain uppermost in the bottom of the chest.
My red cloak was placed at the bottom of the chest and I myself spread an unnecessary number of green tansy sprays over it.
Well, I suppose the journey I took in the red cloak with the tansy figures is what your sister wants me to tell you about.
Catkins hung on birch and willow and alder and the ancient bed of tansy had a new growth of three inches.
At the end of winter it was packed away in a great chest where our winter clothing was kept in summer with tansylaid among the garments to prevent moths.
For ague, cinquefoil and yarrow were recommended, and tansy leaves are worn in the shoe by the Sussex peasantry; and in some places common groundsel has been much used as a charm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tansy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
