The strawberry trefoil is a native of cold wet pastures, such as bear the name of “hungry clays;” when present in quantity it is not to be confounded with Dutch clover, which would indicate a sound fertile soil.
We have seen this trefoil grown with sainfoin to great advantage, as it yields a tolerable crop for the first two years, and then declines, just as the sainfoin has got possession of the soil.
Bronze plaque, representing three warriors, two with feathers in head-dress and trefoil leaves at top; one with pot helmet, button on top.
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.
The circle of the central pediment is divided by mullions into eight lights, under trefoilarches radiating from an orb.
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.
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.
The interstices above contain two trefoil arches, with brackets at the base for the figures.
In that way the Duke of Trefoil might give you enough to do for a lifetime.
She perhaps never heard of the house and gardens at Trefoil Park.
Never mind what the Duke of Trefoil may complicate in the future.
Dean Wren explains this emblem as chosen because, 'the trefoil or clover shrinking before a storm foretold a change of weather,' and the wren was supposed to have the same prescience.
In some localities the blossoms of the rhododendron and of the bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) are very attractive.
The sword, with its trefoil pommel and narrow, curved cross-piece, has quite the character of the Anglo-Saxon weapon of the eleventh century.
The trefoil pommel is represented in our cuts, No.
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 doorway in the north side is remarkable, having a plain trefoil head rising from a corbel-like projection, and is flanked by three receding detached shafts with foliated capitals.
In the tympanum of each trefoil arch there is a quatrefoil and two semi-arches, which are completed by similar ones under the next arch.
This one is octagonal, and has windows of three lights with trefoil and circular ones in the heads.
There is no triforium gallery, a very exquisite arcade taking its place, similar to that in the transepts, consisting of trefoil arches, ornamented with dog-tooth.
The clerestory windows are triangular, with three circles in each, and a trefoil in each circle.
In each bay of the triforium there are two arches, both divided into two sub-arches, with a solid tympanum pierced with a trefoil or quatrefoil.
In the trefoil over the top is a figure of the Virgin with the Infant Saviour, and on either side of the gable is a turret with a richly crocketed pyramidal roof.
This trefoil is found blooming in dry or rocky woods, throughout a wide range, from June to September.
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.
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.
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 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.
In the trefoil of this happy marriage, she was the first leaf which faded away in the autumn of life.
Still the song, through all those white-washed walls, shook the reinforced concrete of the Trefoil as steam pile-drivers shake the flanks of a dock.
Here Ollyett sat straight up, for in common with the youth of that year he worshipped Miss Vidal Benzaguen of the Trefoil immensely and unreservedly.
I made the Silhouettes--I made the Trefoiland the Jocunda.
It feeds on Bird's-foot Trefoiland other leguminous plants.
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.
These trefoilleaves are made separately, and then sewn together.
The outer border of the work is composed of a piece of black soutache, edged with a tiny trefoil pattern in cerise silk.
The Hop Tree or Shrubby Trefoil (page 13), flowers from May to July and produces flat-headed inflorescences of a greenish yellow colour, succeeded in autumn by bunches of flat fruits of a greenish colour.
Come, then, dear Roger, I can offer you a friendly ruin, the chapel with the trefoil quadrilobes.
The first impression produced by the interior of the building is that we have here a church on the trefoil plan, similar to S.
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.
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.
In each niche, under a trefoil arcade, is a statue.
In the form of a gigantic flower with twelve petals, each of the latter is sub-divided by quatrefoils and trefoil archings.
Denny knows a quotation which says-- 'What dire offence from harmless causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trefoil things.
The third was only our wanting to go hunting; but if you count it in it makes the thing about the trefoil come right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trefoil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
