"There's some of that miserable pusley inching in on the baby-blue-eyes and they're such tiny things it doesn't take much to kill them.

Just watch yourself some day after you've sown a crop of desires and you'll see promising little hells starting up within you like pigweeds and pusley after a warm rain in your garden.

He would feed pigs; pulled "pusley" out of the garden for them "and them pigs loved it mighty well".

" He see my look of cold irony as he spoke of sellin' me, and added, "Or I could set you out mostly in pusley if you'd ruther, the garden is full of it.

" "I shall never be sot out in pusley, Josiah Allen, I always hated it.