| 单词 | trefoil |
| 例句 | Bigwig followed Chervil along the run, down which came the scents of warm grass, clover and hop trefoil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a glance round among them Holly went up to Silver, who was feeding with Fiver in a patch of yellow trefoil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The steel-and-cement trefoil exploding from the earth resembles the Capitol from the Hunger Games films. A sip-to-sip tour of the ‘Sonoma of Spain’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which opens on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows how he experimented with Biedermeier and Rococo curves, Egyptian lotus patterns and Gothic trefoils and pointed arches. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z Mr. Parrish appears on the television screen as a man in late middle age with a tidy gray beard and a maroon V-neck sweater emblazoned with a trefoil — the international symbol of radiation. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Their elegant trefoil logo for recycling may be better than the existing one, but no one ever failed to recycle something because they didn't like the logo. Sustainable design is wearing thin 2011-02-03T16:56:09Z Palaces and churches are evoked with pointed arches and ogees, bunches of colonettes, carvings of flowers and fruit, trefoils and quatrefoils. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z The trefoil also appeared on big travel bags, and as a print on trousers. Gucci unveils Adidas collab during Milan Fashion Week 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The tallest folly in the UK, it climbs into the air with telescopic ambition, pierced parapets piled upon trefoil tracery. Hadlow Tower: the UK's tallest folly reborn as a rentable holiday home 2013-04-18T11:06:44Z In his luggage was the trefoil flag of a neo-Nazi hate group. Police seize guns from man thought to be leader of neo-Nazi chapter in Washington state 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The "trefoil" name refers to the main block's three wings. Russia's new Arctic Trefoil military base unveiled with virtual tour - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Shoelace knots are the simplest type of knot, called the trefoil, he says. Unravelling why shoelace knots fail 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z For example, “We turned the famous Adidas trefoil upside down,” he says. A New Adidas Originals x Alexander Wang Collection is Dropping This Spring 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Williams is also using the collection as a platform to talk about equality, the collaboration's logo features an outsized yellow equal sign next to a rainbow-hued version of the familiar Adidas trefoil. Pharrell and friends fete Adidas collaboration 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z In previous work, Leigh and his team created a self-tying trefoil knot and used nature as the inspiration for a synthetic version of the ribosome. Star Of David Recreated As A Molecular Knot [Video] 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Glance at the back of it and you'll see a little version of the yellow trefoil radioactive hazard sign and the letters "Am241". The scary element that saved the crew of Apollo 13 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Most of the commonly used knots are usually just a combination of trefoils. Unravelling why shoelace knots fail 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The bees did not seem particularly impressed with the areas under improved landscape practices, probably because although they were specially planted with nectar-rich flowers like clover and bird’s-foot trefoil, these tracts were regularly mowed. Waggling Bees Give Their Verdict on a Landscape 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Her research interests include graph theory and knot theory, and after creating her first knitted trefoil she continued her adventures in mathematical knitting, developing a technique for knitting more complicated knots and links. The Stunning Symbiosis between Math and Knitting [Slide Show] 2014-02-24T21:00:00Z The shortbread variety, also known as trefoils, is one of the top 5 best-selling Girl Scout cookies, with 18 million boxes sold last year, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Gluten-Free Girl Scout Cookies Are Officially Here 2014-01-29T22:50:24Z There is a long chapter on the study of heredity in British plants discussing celandines, poppies, watercress, violets, pansies, campions, clovers, vetch, trefoil, raspberry, blackberry, saxifrage. A Point Of View: Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm 2013-06-14T16:55:00Z They were enclosed by grilles forged in a trefoil pattern. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z The mathematics of knot theory says that a simple loop and a trefoil are fundamentally different knots. Mathematical Impressions: Can You Turn a Rubber Band into a Knot? [Video] 2013-01-22T18:45:00.827Z Mucus is produced by goblet cells and is composed of heavily glycosylated mucin proteins, as well as other protective molecules, such as trefoil factor, that contribute to epithelial restitution and repair. Reciprocal interactions of the intestinal microbiota and immune system 2012-09-13T11:20:55.227Z Three dots form a trefoil, four dots a quatrefoil, six dots a hexafoil, and so on, and desirable effects can often be produced by such simple inlays. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The trefoil was held sacred by the Greeks as well as other triad forms. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z In the more damp and marshy places the bottom is covered with marsh trefoil, carex, smooth equisetum, and rush. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Often the clearest ideas we have on abstruse points are derived from them, e.g. the shamrock or trefoil is an emblem of the Blessed Trinity. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-20T02:00:10.797Z Every trefoil symbolised the Holy Trinity, every quatrefoil the four evangelists, every cross the Crucifixion, or the martyrdom of some saint. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z So rich and good were the grass and trefoil, that I saved a few seeds, hoping some day to see their produce in England. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Respecting the trefoil, there can be little doubt, as Mr. Dallaway observes, that it was borrowed from the foliated ornaments of antient coronets, which again were imitations of the natural wreath. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The water-bailiff, well rewarded for his watchfulness, was therefore dispatched forthwith back into Italy, with the formal consent of the Countess for her husband to complete the trefoil of his marriage without loss of time. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z So is also the dim fresco of daisies and trefoils, as delicate in design as it is true to nature, still visible on the southern wall. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The effigy of Richard I. at Fontevrault shows a development of the crown; the trefoil heads are expanded, and are chased and jewelled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The ridges upon it represent a cross, the top of which terminates in a trefoil, whilst the foot rests on the head of a lamb. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z The shamrock, which is identical with the trefoil, is the national badge of Ireland. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z In the trefoil of this happy marriage, she was the first leaf which faded away in the autumn of life. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The foot of the goblet had also five trefoils of medium-sized pearls and five balass rubies.' The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z The tomb was opened in 1774, and on the king’s head was found an imitation crown of tin or latten gilt, with trefoils rising from its upper edge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z As on the preceding evening, Champa, after touching his fair friend with the silver stick, took refuge in the temple beneath the heaps of the sacred trefoil. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z Figures 48, 49, represent the trefoil which was used by the ancient Hindoos as emblematic of the celestial triad, and adopted by modern Christians. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z I examined the article I had purchased: it was a very good umbrella, with a laurel-wood stick; the head was a trefoil with silver trimmings, and the cover dark green silk. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Weeds lay uprooted in the ruts; trefoil, wild oats, plantains, pimpernels, broom, its yellow blossoms already mixed with brown pods, brakes folded back on their long stems like young oaks cut down. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Greater freedom of moulding and the use of trefoil and cinquefoil may be, but need not be, explained in this way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Shortly after sunset Champa Dal heard from beneath the heaps of the sacred trefoil the sound as of a mighty rushing wind. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z After cutting the animal in pieces, and cooking the flesh, he spreads out the most delicate grass, chiefly trefoil, and lays the flesh upon it. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Oh! this is the one—a trefoil with silver trimmings. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Then, at a whispered word, she marched up the line to the Captain who pinned on her trefoil badge 90 and explained that it was an emblem of her Scout “life.” The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. The Fracturing of Pennsylvania 2011-11-18T23:20:16Z The trefoil is closely connected with hexagonal designs, since the regular hexagon is formed from the inscribed equilateral triangle by doubling the number of sides. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z On the hilltop the scenery opens out again, the tree-clad valley of the Thames, fields of green grain, with poppies here and there, or wild mustard, and fields crimson with blossoming trefoil. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z We had had a long, long talk and she said I was all wrong and took away my trefoil. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z There were rosy clover clubs, and the yellow bird's foot trefoil beloved of blue butterflies, daisies, and the dainty milkweed, all growing so close together that the grass was almost crowded out. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The third stage consists of the upper part of the two towers; these are surmounted with parapets with lozenge-shaped mouldings inclosing quatrefoil and trefoil panels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z It rests on twenty slender columns that form a sort of arcade with trefoils and mosaic spandrils. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Through this belt the actual road meanders; the sward on each side is now bathed in wild flowers, conspicuous among which are patches of the yellow bird’s-foot trefoil. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Lucy wore her trefoil with 117 a new gratitude and a new understanding. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z A few half-developed herbs and trefoils occasionally meet the eye, together with small patches of wild verbenas of various colors. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z These sills are panelled with a foliated arcading, and in front of the passage there is an open trefoil work parapet. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z In each niche, under a trefoil arcade, is a statue. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z He took off his Scout badge, pointed out the eagle, and the stars and shield, explaining that it was a trefoil badge and represented the three points in the Scout oath. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z If for any misbehavior, the trefoil or “life” must be taken away from her, she would become a dead Scout for the time the Captain ordered and for that time in disgrace. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z The glazed windows were decorated with three trefoils supported on two arches. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The canopies, which bow forward, have trefoil ogee arches, surmounted with crockets and finials. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z But I must go back to the 11th of February, in order to half-deprive the reader of his sympathising enjoyment of the re-union of the trefoil of friends which then took place. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z It will be observed how absolutely the eye rests on the forms of the leaves, and on the three berries in the angle, being in light exactly what the trefoil is in darkness. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The trefoil is commonly imitated, and is very characteristic of the style. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Its exterior, like that of the fa�ade, was decorated with arches, and was lighted with windows ornamented with trefoils. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Land will be seeded with species such as lesser knapweed, field scabious, birdsfoot trefoil and red clover. 'Bee Road' network plans to boost insects 2011-04-12T02:13:08Z The only conclusion we could reach, after listening to every one, was that there are three or four varieties of the shamrock, and that almost any trefoil will do. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The reader cannot but observe agreeableness, as a mere arrangement of shade, which especially belongs to the "sacred trefoil." The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Rich acres of com by the wayside were interspersed with quiet hamlets, and with luxuriant meadows abounding in trefoil and a vast variety of red and white clover. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z In St. Apollinaire, too, are to be remarked the unusual arch formed of a rounded trefoil. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The stomacher a large trefoil in emeralds, and the short sleeves cut to resemble the Irish emblem. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z Now of course the true shamrock is the particular trefoil which St. Patrick plucked first on the Rock of Cashel, but there is no way of telling which that was. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The traceries above them are grouped in pyramids of trefoil openings, similar to some in the Lady chapel at Wells. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z For the figure cut in the rind was that of a shamrock—a trefoil with its stalk. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z It is a feature perhaps not worth mentioning, except from the fact that both the trefoil and wedge-pointed arch are singularly unbeautiful and little in keeping with an otherwise purely southern structure. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z In the last quarter of the century, pointed trefoils or quatrefoils are largely used in tracery, and the foliations frequently form the lines of the tracery, without enclosing circles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" This simple and homely illustration made the idea intelligible, and whenever after that St. Patrick found himself on the subject of the Trinity, he always stooped and plucked a trefoil to demonstrate what he meant. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Very interesting, also, are the tracery lights, which consist of pyramids of small trefoil openings, four at the base, then three, then two, then one. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Along the roads one is delighted by the abundance of the marsh-mallow, sweet clover, wild mint, and trefoil, and only sighs for time to gather of them and leisure to enjoy their sweets. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands I followed her large yet beautifully formed hand, and the trefoil which grew under it; the lions supporting a shield were already finished, and the last leaf would be done to-day. A Sister's Love A Novel Here it was, perhaps, that St. Patrick himself stood when he stooped to pluck the trefoil, and that King Ængus was baptised. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z By these the shape of the head of the opening was turned into a form resembling a trefoil leaf. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Of shrubby trefoil we learn that “if a man hold it in his hand he cannot be hurt with the biting of any venemous beast.” The Old English Herbals The large trefoil bay is from the 13th century. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album They talked of these “Yanks” that had clubs on their flags and caps, the trefoils of the 2d corps that are like clubs in cards. The Battle of Gettysburg This modification consists of a trefoil mark placed in the upper corner of the new stamps, which will serve to distinguish them from the old issues printed by the American Bank-note Company. Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 Eleven of them bore a running pattern of trefoil—the apex pointing earthward—the twelfth had its pattern reversed. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel It is of the ducal form with greater and lesser trefoil leaves alternately, instead of the usual circlet. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History This large twin bay with a trefoil arch replaced in 1860 a rectangular opening, that replaced itself a small Romanesque bay in 1790. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album The rattling storm soon spreads to the right, and the blue trefoils are vieing with the white. The Battle of Gettysburg Denny knows a quotation which says: "What dire offence from harmless causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trefoil things." The Wouldbegoods Thus, people gathered on this night the rose, St. John’s wort, vervain, trefoil, and rue, all of which were supposed to have magical properties. Folk-lore of Shakespeare For an anxious moment it groped there before the fingers closed over a metal badge, shaped like a trefoil, that was pinned securely to the flannel shirt. Under Boy Scout Colors Above the door, the little trefoil bay was probably added in the 16th century, during the building of the belfry. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album Of Gibbon’s white trefoil division, if I am not cautious, I shall speak too enthusiastically. The Battle of Gettysburg Gothic trefoil arches and traceries are carried by classical columns. Cathedrals of Spain These windows are practically trefoils of most unsymmetrical proportions, and are in every way unlovely. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine One of the most conspicuous among the symbols intended to represent the Trinity, to be seen in Christian churches, is the compound leaf of the trefoil. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning The baptismal font, probably from the 14th century, is adorned with carved trefoil arches in low relief. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album Ours was the trefoil, and our division’s red. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry Six slender columns divide its seven arches, while above them are trefoil and quatrefoil penetrations contained within a segmental arch, broken by carved heads. Cathedrals of Spain II., are most curious and pure examples of this condition; with experimental trefoils, roses, and leaves introduced between their volutes. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Those trefoils are among the most ancient efforts of Gothic art in Venice. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), The upper floor is open to the north, south and west by walled-up Romanesque twin bays, that were extended by Gothic trefoil bays added in the early 16th century. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album All these four examples belonging to the oblique or Northern system, the curious trefoil plan, 3, lies between the two, as the double quatrefoil next it unites the two. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) On the thorax there is a deep black mark called trefoil. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution It has five ogee trefoil niches with saints within them, and a framing of late Gothic foliage, with half-lengths of angels in the spandrils. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The trefoils into which the leaves fall at the extremities are, however, for the most part similar, though variously disposed, and generally niche themselves one under the other, as very characteristically in fig. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Above these, again, are eight p. 137columns of polished granite, supporting the superstructure, and these also have eight trefoil dormers, simpler than those below, each finished with a finial of gun metal. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time This is a great feature, but the most striking point in all good Gothic work is the wonderful elaboration of geometric tracery, vesicas, trefoils, quatrefoils and an immense variety of other ornament. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them The pointed windows above are in two lancet divisions, surmounted by a trefoil; but the dividing masonry is not a mullion: it is the unperforated part of the wall. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy In the tympanum is a later relief of the Virgin and Child enthroned, with two saints, beneath a pointed trefoil arcade; and on brackets at the sides are four figures of Apostles. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Nor let us fail to note in passing how strangely delightful to the human mind the trefoil always is. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), In the chancel the east window, of coloured glass, is lofty, with three lights, and six trefoils above. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Parapets with square battlements are very common at this period, but they too are frequently panelled or pierced with tracery, or with trefoils or quatrefoils inserted in square, circular or triangular compartments. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them Then, too, one finds the Caucasian influence in some of the borders, and the reciprocal trefoil is often seen. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference It has a qua trefoil wooden grille, made by cutting triangles out of the uprights and cross-pieces equal in size to the angles remaining. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia I said the trefoil was five or six hundred times repeated. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), In the north wall of the nave are three square-headed windows of three lights, with trefoils above, the glass being plain, except a border of red, purple, and yellow. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time And it is remarkable that Pliny says the trefoil is an antidote against the bites of snakes and scorpions. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore In one of these chapels, however, is a curious painting in the vaulting, representing a "Trinity" possessing three faces, disposed in the form of a trefoil with three eyes only. The Cathedrals of Northern France The Child is nude, tall, and thin, and wears a crown decorated with pearls and trefoils. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia This trefoil badge of the scouts is now used, with slight local variations, in almost every civilized country as the mark of brotherhood, for good citizenship, and friendliness. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 In the south wall are three two-light windows, with trefoil and circle above; the glass being modern, with various coloured scripture texts. p. 202The sittings are of deal, with plain poppy-heads. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Across these five upright divisions and in a straight line is thrown a great flattened trefoil arch joined to the back with Gothic vaulting. Portuguese Architecture In this Noyon plainly excels, and there is found nowhere else in France the perfect trefoil effect produced by the apsidal terminations of both transepts and choir. The Cathedrals of Northern France Among others the singular desmodium, or bush trefoil, is interesting from having the leaves and flowers grow on separate plants, quite unconnected apparently, and often some little distance apart. Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The water trefoil is likewise of great use in this complaint. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The front of this platform has slender piers, supported by lancet arches, with trefoils and quatrefoils between, giving a graceful effect, and painted white, gold, and grey, with a background chocolate in colour. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The columns, trefoils in section, are twisted, and have simple moulded caps. Portuguese Architecture An unusual feature is the circumambient aisles to the transepts and the suggestion that a trefoil apsidal termination was originally thought of, when the rebuilding was taken in hand in the twelfth century. The Cathedrals of Northern France A closer examination of the building, however, will prove that we are dealing with a structure whose original features have been concealed by extensive Turkish alterations, and that the trefoil form is a superficial disguise. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture St. Patrick took for his illustration the three leaves of trefoil, or clover. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors If, for misbehavior, her trefoil or life has to be taken from her, she becomes a dead Scout for the time the captain orders—a day or a week—and is in disgrace. How Girls Can Help Their Country In the two corners between the trefoils and the framing are circles enclosing shields, one charged with the Cross of the Order of Christ, the other with the armillary sphere. Portuguese Architecture The fields were white with moon-daisies, growing among the long, lush grass; and all the roadsides were a tangle of vetches, campion, bugle, trefoil and speedwells. The Manor House School Across her clover fields the ruddy sunlight lay in broad undulating bands, gilding blossom and curling trefoil. The Gay Rebellion The trefoil, honeysuckle, myrtle, and white convolvulus grew in rank profusion, with occasional pale pink, single-leaved roses. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Lake Itasca is composed of three arms, extending in the form of a trefoil, having a length of five miles and an average width of about one mile. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier Above the horizontal cornice is a most elaborate cresting of interlacing trefoils and leaves having in the middle the royal arms with on each side an armillary sphere. Portuguese Architecture But he kept silence as to the fate that awaited the man who was without the crowsfoot and the trefoil, and Bernèz thought that nothing but boldness and quickness were necessary. The Lilac Fairy Book The following is an abstract of the most important of his experiments:— A sheep having been fed on fresh trefoil, was killed and opened immediately,—that is, before the process of rumination had commenced. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. On the path leading round the base of the bluff were many pretty wild-flowers, among which the blooming trefoil and the harebell were seen intermingled with a large and handsome species of daisy. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Of the trefoil, or clover, there is but little cultivated. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West It has a flat ogee head with round projections which give it a roughly trefoil shape, and is framed in rope mouldings of great size, which end above in three curious finials. Portuguese Architecture Do you wish for some more trefoil leaves? Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The name "shamrock" is an old Irish word, written "seamragg," and means a little "trefoil." More Science From an Easy Chair I suppose it to be the most savage and natural of notions about Deity; a prismatic idol-shape of Him, rude as a triangular log, as a trefoil grass. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The unity of the Persons in the one Godhead is sometimes represented by intersected triangles, or by the trefoil placed under a triangle. The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness The large transept windows with half octagonal heads under a large trefoil were inserted about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Portuguese Architecture The pierced tympanum has a quatrefoil for the four cardinal virtues, or a trefoil for faith, hope, and charity. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England Curiously enough there appears to be an Oriental word, "shamrakh," which I am told is of Arabic origin, and also means a trefoil. More Science From an Easy Chair In this doorway the innermost arch is of unusual form—a trefoil resting on corbels—and its edges are left square and plain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Mentally approving his delicacy, she was on the point of calling him in, when the interior grew dark, and on the trefoil lights of the lantern was heard the patter of another shower. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Across the trefoil at its springing there runs a horizontal moulding resting on the flat elliptical arch of the door itself. Portuguese Architecture I handed her a trefoil, but she waved it aside. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive The ancient architectural decoration of trefoil carving, and also the heraldic shamrock in the arms of the United Kingdom, represent the leaf of the wood-sorrel, and not that of the clover. More Science From an Easy Chair The reredos, an arcading of slender arches each enclosing a trefoiled arch impaling a trefoil, is a restoration of the original Decorated work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Occasionally, the leaflets of a compound leaf have been observed united by their margins, as in the strawberry, the white trefoil, and others. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants This too is more or less trefoil in shape, Fig. Portuguese Architecture In Persia.—The trefoil on which the sacrifices were placed was probably held sacred from its cruciform character. Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The true shamrock is the delicate little wood-sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, which has a beautifully formed three-split or trefoil leaf of the most vivid green colour, and a white flower like that of a geranium. More Science From an Easy Chair Below the seats and the piscina runs a chamfer with ‘four-leaved flowers’ along it, and below this are panels enclosing trefoils containing faces. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric A trefoil plant or leaf, the badge of Ireland. The Handbook to English Heraldry At the top, the drip-mould grows into a large trefoil with crockets outside and an armillary sphere within. Portuguese Architecture The top of the screen is crowned with running foliage, underneath which, in twenty-three Gothic trefoils, are as many carved faces. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda It is much rarer to find the wood-sorrel trefoil with a fourth leaflet than it is to find the clover trefoil so provided. More Science From an Easy Chair In the north wall there is a square aumbry, and in the south wall a large piscina, with trefoil head and projecting basin. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric On the effigy of Queen Joan the collar certainly has no pendant, except the jewelled ring of a trefoil form. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Towards the Pateo the two outer mouldings form a large half octagon set diagonally and with curved sides; the next two form a large trefoil. Portuguese Architecture In the central section there are two arches, one being semi-circular with very delicate foliated tracery; the other is an ogee trefoil supported from brackets which take the form of angels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire For her services in this hospital she received from the officers and men a gold medal—a trefoil, beautifully engraved, and with an appropriate inscription. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Before the house is an ancient stone wall with strongly-marked base, gable coping, and a doorway whose trefoil head was apparently not made for its present position. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric To the right of this and along the east wall of the cloister, are arched recesses of a late style, and in the south wall is an arcade of trefoil form, with nail-head enrichments. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys This arch, moulded and enriched with four-leaved flowers, is fringed with elaborate cusps, irregular in size, which with rounded mouldings are given a trefoil shape by small beautifully carved crockets. Portuguese Architecture Of these, the larger ones are ribbed with sixteen ribs, while the smaller ones are quatrefoils, each member being composed of a trefoil with an elegantly carved cusp. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire All round it, with the exception of one side, which opened on the garden, were suspended screens of white grass-cloth, with a design which looked like a trefoil worked on them. In the Eastern Seas East of this is a piscina with projecting semi-octagonal basin, trefoil head, and ogee hood, and with a small square window above and to the left of it. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The lancets in the west face are all cinquefoiled, and the three lower tiers here have trefoils in the spandrels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See A straight and curved moulding surrounds their trefoil heads under a double twining hood-mould. Portuguese Architecture In the upper storey of the chapel the ceiling is made up of hexagons and octagons, the intervening space being filled up with circles, trefoils of irregular shapes, though symmetrically disposed, and quatrefoils. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire To this would apply very well the Collar which Hawkins told me had been thought of, of trefoils and roses alternate. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 The interstices above contain two trefoil arches, with brackets at the base for the figures. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents Yellow trefoil for Third Fleet-Army Force, Roman IV for Fourth Army, 907 for his regiment, with C under it for cavalry. Oomphel in the Sky Outside, other mouldings rise high above the whole to form a second large trefoil, whose hood-mould curves into two great crocketed circles before rising to a second ogee. Portuguese Architecture The arch over it is a moulded trefoil arch, surmounted by a plain canopy of very simple and formal design. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire The trefoil signified the Trinity, and the cross no longer the rays of the sun on water, but the cross of Calvary. The Book of Hallowe'en In the fifth stage are four trefoil arches, like those of the second stage: these lie parallel with those at the base of the pediments, already described, and with those also of the side transepts. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents The ones on my right had that trefoil emblem upside down. Highways in Hiding The trefoils form large hanging cusps in front of the complicated inner arch. Portuguese Architecture Thus let the three circles, A B C, Fig 6., represent the undivided cups of the three great geometrical orders of flowers—trefoil, quatrefoil and cinquefoil. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers The trefoil, changed into a figure composed of three winged feet radiating from a center, represented the swiftness of the sun's journey. The Book of Hallowe'en The outer moulding of the central circle is composed of closely compacted trefoils, that of the others has the wave ornament. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents I covered the design itself, let my perception roam along the spokes, and then around the circlet that supported the spokes that held the trefoil emblem. Highways in Hiding The inner side of the trefoil is cusped, crockets and finials enrich the outer moulding of the opening, while beyond the jambs are niches, now empty. Portuguese Architecture It is of trefoil arches, deeply and richly moulded, supported on marble columns carved with foliage. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See It is separated into three towns, quite distinct one from the other, yet joined, like a trefoil. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre At the base of each circle is a series of trefoil arches, rested on isolated columns, four of which admit light into an apartment above the vaulting, and three contain statues. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents The trefoil ornament in the middle did not look the same as I recalled them. Highways in Hiding On one side are two belfry windows, with depressed trefoil heads—that is the top of the trefoil has a double curve, exactly like the end of a clover leaf. Portuguese Architecture Four white trefoils sprung up wherever she trod. The Mabinogion Vol. 2 Definition of Clover.—According to Johnson's Encyclopædia, clover or trefoil is a plant of the genus Trifolium and the family Leguminosæ. Clovers and How to Grow Them The circle of the central pediment is divided by mullions into eight lights, under trefoil arches radiating from an orb. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents The trefoil gizmo was a take-off on the fleur-de-lis or the Boy Scout Tenderfoot badge, or the design they use to signify North on a compass. Highways in Hiding The twisted mouldings are carried up beyond the capitals to form a huge trefoil turning up at the top to a large and rather clumsy finial. Portuguese Architecture The trefoil heads above the mullions have a brown border with the insertion in some cases of a yellow diamond ornament, and in others of a crown. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Thus lightly and reverently has the master touched the mystery of the Blessed Trinity: the goldfinch symbolizing by its colours, the trefoil by the form of its leaf.' The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art In the second stage are four trefoil arches similarly supported; this range is continued round the facings of the inner wall immediately over the doorways, and forms the base of the windows. A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents At Salisbury Cathedral the parapet is relieved by a series of blank trefoil headed pannels, sunk in the face. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. In the centre a doubly cusped circle is surrounded by twelve radiating openings, whose trefoiled heads abut against twelve other broad trefoils, which are rather curiously run into the mouldings of the containing circle. Portuguese Architecture The windows on the south side of the clerestory are without the trefoil which ornaments the base of those on the north side. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The next is ‘A. L. S.,’ done in red, and also a trefoil leaf of clover in green, beside several rude characters and drawings in blue and red. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 The spaces between the arches of the middle circle are pierced with trefoil holes, those between the outer arches are pierced and filled with glass. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See Also stress is laid on the healing of skin eruptions in children, by a decoction of the purple and white meadow trefoils. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The whole building is surmounted by brick battlements, everything else being of granite, resting on a good trefoil corbel table, and, as the roofs are perfectly flat, there are no gables. Portuguese Architecture A staircase crossing over the east window in the thickness of the wall receives light from the triangular window enclosing three trefoils which appears in the gable. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See A jewel had been left in the heart of every groundling trefoil and clover-leaf, and the long rays that twinkled to them were still just tinged with rose. Strangers at Lisconnel Above the gables are two more arches with trefoils in their heads, and in the crown of the window a circle cinquefoiled. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See A conventional trefoil is figured on our coins, both Irish and English, this plant being the National Badge of Ireland. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure He is lying at this moment on the trefoil that commands all metals. News from the Duchy On this side only—the north—the base is ornamented with trefoils. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See In the middle was a drift-way with deep ruts, but right and left was a space carpeted with a sward of trefoil and clover. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 The central light has further a very acute arch above it, also filled with a trefoil. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The clover trefoil is in some measure a sensitive plant; "its leaves," said Pliny, "do start up as if afraid of an assault when tempestuous weather is at hand." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Among the former may be mentioned triangles, stars, trefoil or clover-leaves, anchors, trees, garlands and flowers, bridges or arches, and crowns. Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer It terminates in a highly-finished octagonal turret whose parapet is enriched with a running trefoil ornament resembling that on the base of the clerestory windows. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See It is hard to say where history ends in them and religion and politics begin; for history, religion, and politics grow on one stem in Ireland, an eternal trefoil. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish "Hope, by the ancients, was drawn in the form of a sweet and beautiful child, standing upon tiptoes, and a trefoil or three-leaved grass in her hand." Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors The ornaments on the rim are only trefoils, and there are five arches. English Embroidered Bookbindings A "trefoil arch" connects the 113six chief pillars, on each of which stands a statue of a Virtue. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Besides, I could see, through the stone trefoils, shadows of superhuman size flitting through the nave, apparently performing, with a sort of rhythm, some mysterious ceremony. Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume I see in the fields and meadows the bird's foot trefoil, the oxeye daisy, the lady smocks, sweet hemlock, butterbur, the stitchwort, and the orchis, the "long purpled" of Shakespeare. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Only don't let this trefoil of yours get to fighting with one another. Clover These plots were arranged in various figures and devices—such as the cinq-foil, the flower-de-luce, the trefoil, the lozenge, the fret, the diamond, the crossbow, and the oval—all very elaborate and intricate in design. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest In the spandrels of the trefoils are the four Evangelists and six Prophets. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Its bell cote held one bell; and within was a Norman font, a trefoil headed piscina, and sitting room for thirty-four people. The Spinners In the former Lancastrian regions it had no pendant, except a plain or jewelled ring, usually of the trefoil form. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Toupat kuroondu, trefoil cinnamon, of which there are three varieties, which grow in the mountains and valleys of the interior about Kandy. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. In one spot, where water runs over the surface, it is delightfully green and velvety, covered with short grass and trefoil, Carex, etc. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The outer border of the work is composed of a piece of black soutache, edged with a tiny trefoil pattern in cerise silk. Beeton's Book of Needlework At Bourges, for instance, analogous prophets and very similar queens stand meditative in, one of the extraordinary side bays where the Arab trefoil is so conspicuous. The Cathedral The ordinary clover and all its varieties, including the trefoil and the shamrock, are barometers. Camping For Boys This plant," he states, "is of a moderate size, in appearance somewhat like the acetous trefoil; the roots yellow, each about five or six inches long, and two in circumference. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. "It is hard to say where history ends, and where religion and politics begin; for history, religion and politics grow on one stem in Ireland, an eternal trefoil." Ireland In The New Century These trefoil leaves are made separately, and then sewn together. Beeton's Book of Needlework The cannon were now fully replaced, the regimental flags unrolled, and on the front line, long motionless, the trefoil guidons of the two divisions of the Second Corps fluttered feebly. Westways After an examination of the traces, which resembled a large trefoil, they precipitated themselves on the interpreter-in-chief, representing how impossible it was to camp out in the neighborhood of the dreaded animal. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Four of these niches are pierced for windows, which have trefoils with pointed heads, though the trefoil heads of the niches themselves are round at the top. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 When the row of stitches is of the length required, form the trefoil leaves, and sew a few beads over the places where they are joined. Beeton's Book of Needlework He was in the undress uniform of the artillery, and still wore the trefoil of the Second Corps. Westways A considerable quantity of clover or trefoil on this lake; and at the eastern end on the flooded flat, grass but not abundant. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia The upper aisle window here is of three lights, with a large pointed trefoil above them instead of tracery. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The bed of this watercourse was covered with a plant resembling clover or trefoil, but it had a yellow flower, and a perfume like that of woodrooffe.* Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 The same all round. 6th round: The same as the 5th. 7th round: 1 treble in 1 chain, 1 trefoil in the top of the treble, 6 chain. Beeton's Book of Needlework The north porch is entered by a pointed arch, which, though much less ornamented, approaches in style to the southern porch of St. Ouen, and, like that, has its inner archivolt fringed with pendant trefoils. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 The bold and lofty entrance of this porch is surrounded within by pendant trefoil arches, springing from carved bosses, and forming an open festoon of tracery. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 He seems himself to have been a man of substance and position; he already used the arms, the double trefoil, which are still borne by all the branches of his family. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire These are folded, acre by acre, on turnips, cole, or trefoil, and those fattened for the market are fed with oil-cake in the field. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Lord Bacon observes, that the trefoil has its stalk more erect against rain. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) The base of the monument has seven trefoil niches, within as many plain-pointed ones. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Her crown was of floriated trefoils surmounting a band of rubies. Figures of Earth The simple trefoil aperture seems a fair architectural version of the clover-leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 The seeds or grasses sown by Mr. Jonas for pasturage and hay are chiefly white and red clover and trefoil. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Each side, moreover, had a tall pointed window, filled with stained glass, and was richly adorned with trefoils and cinquefoils. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Behind these arches are two rows of trefoil niches; and between them also rises a square column, of the Doric order, surmounted by carved pinnacles. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 The envelope was of trefoil shape, this being due to the interior rigging from the suspension band; the exterior appearance is that of two lobes side by side, overlaid by a third. A History of Aeronautics He says this means that all great events come from three things—threefold, like the clover or trefoil, and the causes are always harmless. The Wouldbegoods The envelope is made up of three longitudinal lobes, one above and two below, which when viewed end on gives it a trefoil appearance. British Airships, Past, Present, and Future Lucerne and a trefoil called shaftal form important fodder crops in the western parts of the country, and, when irrigated. are said to afford ten or twelve cuttings in the season. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 But I call him Gibbet, merely to make up the holy trefoil with another rhyme. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier A balustrade had been added, ornamented with trefoils, bordering the terrace on the chapels of the apse. The Dream Denny knows a quotation which says— 'What dire offence from harmless causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trefoil things.' The Wouldbegoods They lay down in the dry grass, upon the gold bits of bird's-foot trefoil of the cliff's edge, and looked out to sea. The Trespasser I saw sheep cropping trefoil in a field on the other side of the brown hedgerow, and at a distance I saw the red-tiled roof of a farm-house. Birds of Prey Small windows have heads shaped in the ogee or trefoil forms. English Villages Bulbs flourish among them, and clovers, trefoils, and vetch. The Naturalist on the Thames His Trinity is a mere trefoil, a 3=1, which is no mystery at all, but a common object of the senses. Literary Remains, Volume 2 The trefoils to which I have called your attention in Niccola's pulpit are as absolutely without structural office in the circles as in the panels of the font beside it. Val d'Arno Hope, among the ancients, was sometimes represented as a beautiful child, standing upon tiptoes, and a trefoil or three-colored grass in her hand. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes His diadem, with the three zimmes shaped into a triple trefoil 75 on his brow, his sceptre in his right hand. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Hanging from the back of her head were to be seen moss and fennel, and various grasses—rye grass and timothy, trefoil and cinquefoil, vetches, and clover, and here and there young fern. The Three Clerks Pour white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod. A History of English Literature The trefoil and the barley grass wave high upon the plains, The tanks all overflowing and the saltbush fresh and green, It’s a pleasure for to ramble o’er the plains of Riverine. The Old Bush Songs Traversing the village and crossing the bridge, we issued again on a vista of fields bright with trefoil and waving flowers, and backed up by finely-wooded hills. Twixt France and Spain To Trinity Sunday belong the pansy, or herb-trinity and trefoil, hence the latter has been used for decorations on this anniversary. The Folk-lore of Plants Separated from it by a very absurd and useless ditch, a Green Shamrock spread its trefoil leafage to the sun, and grew greener every day. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 Round me is humming the busy bee, and with pinion uncertain Hovers the butterfly gay over the trefoil's red flower. The Poems of Schiller — Third period I have said that no man could read the inscriptions on the rings: they were all the same—the three as like as the leaves of a trefoil. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 The ornaments of the oaken mantelpiece culminated in a shield bearing a cross boutonnee, i.e. with trefoil terminations. The Chaplet of Pearls Daylight fell from above through a cupola and through trefoils of colored glass into the immense circular room, with paved floor and walls covered with pottery decorated after the Arab fashion. Strong as Death Why, my dear fellow, are not clover and trefoil the same things? The Town Traveller Some years since, a mode of preparing old clover and trefoil seeds by a process called doctoring, became so prevalent as to excite the attention of the House of Commons. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures And with his grain he scattered the seeds of the dandelion and the wild trefoil over the meadows, mingling his English flowers with the wild native ones. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers For already another change had taken place in the government of France, and the trefoil- leaf of the consuls had assumed another form. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon "It will be a splendid trefoil, it seems to me," cried the emperor. Napoleon and Blucher These strange upraised domes, which from a distance look like the head-dresses of dervishes or magi, are embroidered with arabesques, and the walls are crowned with denticulated trefoils of exquisite fashioning. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) I was assured that, "the few whose constitution could hold out for another six weeks would recover when the trefoil should be fit to cut." Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 He had almost give up hope, when on the very last day before it was necessary that he should start of Plouhinec, he came upon a little clump of trefoil, half hidden under a rock. The Lilac Fairy Book Grow, good flower, and keep him Who wears your bloom today, Shadow and sunshine bless him, And the trefoil's heavenward way. Ballads of Peace in War The meadows are jewelled with flowers, and produce trefoil and other herbs, always tender and soft, and looking as though they were always fresh. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 This trefoil is found blooming in dry or rocky woods, throughout a wide range, from June to September. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors He dreamed that he was at his club, sitting after dinner in the crowded smoking-room, with its bright walls and trefoils of light. Villa Rubein, and other stories But he kept silence as to the fate that awaited the man who was without the crowsfoot and the trefoil, and Bernez thought that nothing but boldness and quickness were necessary. The Lilac Fairy Book At length the grand peal began; the whole tower trembled; woodwork, leads, cut stones, all groaned at once, from the piles of the foundation to the trefoils of its summit. Notre-Dame De Paris A Gothic window, with its stone mullions surmounted by a trefoil, was exactly on a level with my head. Mauprat One usually finds caterpillars of the "dusky wings" butterfly feeding on the foliage and the similar tick trefoils which are its staple. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Under its leaves, which resembled those of the trefoil, there were dried sporules as large as a lentil, and these sporules, when crushed between two stones, made a sort of flour. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant A few slender and graceful columns, their heads adorned with wreaths of trefoil, began to laugh and dance here and there. Christ in Flanders He was in haste again to behold Baya's blue bodice, his little snuggery and his fountains, as well as to repose on the white trefoils of his little cloister whilst awaiting money from France. Tartarin of Tarascon After the wistaria comes the tree-peony, and then the iris, with its trefoil flowers broader than a man may span, and at all colors under the sky. The Soul of the Far East The flowers are much smaller than those of the showy trefoil; however, when seen in masses, they form conspicuous patches of color in dry woods. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors These shoes had a peculiarity which did not escape the Major; it was a trefoil clumsily cut on the back part. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant However, Autaritus recognised a shield shaped like a trefoil on his left arm. Salammbo |
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