The foot of the goblet had also five trefoils of medium-sized pearls and five balass rubies.
The small balls of marble affixed to the outer edge of the trefoilsare like those in the tracery of the Ducal Palace, and in the centre of the medallions of marble everywhere throughout the city.
The spandrels of the trefoils are filled in with refined sculpture, instead of being pierced with the dark eye usually found in northern Gothic.
Each spandrel is pierced by trefoils and quatrefoils, and at the apse the triforium spandrels are entirely covered with foliage.
The rest of the arch is filled with trellis-work, quatrefoils, trefoils and circles, while at the crown there is a large carved boss.
The clerestory has one window of four lights in each bay, with an eight-foil and two trefoils in the head.
The spandrels are decorated with sunk trefoils or quatrefoils.
The tympana are pierced, as before, with trefoils and quatrefoils, except in the case of the first bay on the eastern side, where they are plain.
The crooked state of some of the trefoils and quatrefoils of the tympana is probably due to the same cause.
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.
His arms are in the trefoils of the rose and in the central lancet.
The three trefoils in the centre of the wheel contain three coats of arms--the short triangular shields of the thirteenth century, of which the first is that of Edward I.
Trefoils are very rarely seen until the 15th century, although Hervey has them, and Gausill, and a Bosville coat seems to have borne them.
The crosslet, cross botonny or cross crosletted, is a cross whose limbs, of even breadth, end astrefoils or treble buds.
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.
The columns, trefoilsin section, are twisted, and have simple moulded caps.
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.
The trefoils form large hanging cusps in front of the complicated inner arch.
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.
Westminster had a beaded row below the circlet, which is narrow and plain, and from it rises a series of plain trefoils with slightly raised points between them.
The crown of William the Conqueror and his immediate successors seems to have been a plain circlet with four uprights, which terminated in trefoils (fig.
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.
A few more turns of the staircase and more frequent openings cast their golden trefoils on the opposite wall.
Into the upper part are crowded five trefoils of different shapes, and piled one on the top of the other.
Above the gables are two more arches with trefoils in their heads, and in the crown of the window a circle cinquefoiled.
The rattling storm soon spreads to the right, and the blue trefoils are vieing with the white.
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.
One usually finds caterpillars of the "dusky wings" butterfly feeding on the foliage and the similar tick trefoils which are its staple.
But by none of these methods just mentioned do the tick-trefoils spread abroad.
Below the seats and the piscina runs a chamfer with 'four-leaved flowers' along it, and below this are panels enclosing trefoils containing faces.
It feeds on Lotus corniculatus, and on other trefoils and clover: July to May.
The caterpillar is somewhat similar to that of the last species; it feeds on clovers and trefoils in July and August, but so far does not seem to have been noted to eat grasses.
It feeds on trefoils and clover, and sometimes passes two winters before becoming full grown.
The Trefoils did not start for an hour after this, during which Arabella could hardly find an opportunity for a word in private.
The Duke with the Trefoils always meant the Duke of Mayfair who was Arabella's ducal uncle.
She made no request and clothed her suggestion in no words of tenderness; but simply told her grandson that she would come back--as the Trefoils had left him.
The wheels were not out of sight of the house before the attack on the Trefoils began.
Her aunt was evidently alive to the advantage of the marriage, to the advantage which would accrue not to her, Arabella, individually, but to the Trefoils generally.
The Trefoils are a very distinguished family," continued the rector.
The parting between Morton and the Trefoils was very chill and uncomfortable.
It was just a week from the day on which the Trefoils had gone that Mrs. Morton was driven up to the door in Mr. Runciman's fly.
The method of the clovers and trefoils is quite different.
These are the reasons, however, why the grasses and clovers or trefoils continue to enrich old pastures when most of the other plants disappear, with the exception of daisies and buttercups, and the acid sorrels.
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.
At the summit are sunk trefoils under the gabled tops; and a little further to the west, on the south, the whole is finished by an octangular turret with shallow arches and a pyramidal top with crockets.
The lancets in the west face are all cinquefoiled, and the three lower tiers here havetrefoils in the spandrels.
In the west wall of the tower is a three-light window, with two trefoils and a quatrefoil above.
In the chancel the east window, of coloured glass, is lofty, with three lights, and sixtrefoils above.
The 14th century font has a massive octagonal bowl, with large trefoils in each face, and grotesquely carved heads at the angles; the shaft being plain octagonal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trefoils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
