Stained glass of Sainte ChapelleThe preference in Gothic architecture for quatrefoils has produced a legacy of four-leaved ornaments that enriches architecture of the Late Middle Ages. ❋ Unionpearl (2008)
Often, quatrefoils enclose stained glass, but the four-leaved plant motif can also appear as part of the stained glass itself. ❋ Unionpearl (2008)
It was rather as if he were thanking a stranger in a smoking-room for some trouble in passing the matches, than as if he were (as he was) practically thanking the Curator of Kew Gardens for coming with him into a field to find a four-leaved clover. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mother had gone back to her writing, and several sheets of pink paper with scalloped gilt edges and green four-leaved shamrocks in the corner were spoiled before the three had decided what to say. ❋ Edith (2003)
At a signal from the princess the prince poured the water in the hole, and the moment it reached the brim the princess flung in the four-leaved plant. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But a girl was present who had just found a bit of four-leaved clover, and had thus become so wise that no deception could stand out against her, and she saw that the beam was nothing but a straw. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Three of my friends who have been as inseparable as a four-leaved clover, all three decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, lay down their lives for their country. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)
For figures or descriptions of four-leaved shamrocks the reader is referred to Lobel, 'Stirp. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Linné, who in this matter, at any rate, had less than his usual feeling for romance, says of the four-leaved trefoil that it differs no more from the ordinary trefoil than a man with six fingers differs from one provided with the ordinary number. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Compound leaves, as has been stated, occasionally produce an extra number of leaflets; one of the most familiar illustrations of this is in the case of the four-leaved shamrock (_Trifolium repens_), which was gathered at night-time during the full moon by sorceresses, who mixed it with vervain and other ingredients, while young girls in search of a token of perfect happiness made quest of the plant by day. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
It is something like the ideas of many people about the four-leaved clovers. ❋ Roger Thompson Finlay (N/A)
Paris (four-leaved Paris) they have been found very useful in epilepsy. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
From the upper platform, with its four-leaved balustrade, rises the beautiful open-work spire, somewhat resembling that of St. Peter's at Caen, and flanked by four turrets. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Oh! A sort of four-leaved clover, a reasonable employer," answered his genial informant. ❋ John Maurice Miller (N/A)
_Marsilia_ (Fig. 71, _A_), looking like a four-leaved clover. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)
The male flowers have a four-leaved calyx, and sometimes eight stamens, each with two glands, four in one row, opposite to the sepals, four in a second series alternating with the first. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
