The shamrock three-leaved clover originally represented the maiden, mother, and crone stages of the female deity in the Celtic tradition. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is believed that Patrick used the three-leaved clover to teach the concept of the trinity or three-in-one male deity God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to his Irish converts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
High on the cliffs, particularly on north-facing slopes, there are a number of alpine plants, including purple saxifrage Saxifraga oppositifolia, tufted saxifrage Saxifraga caespitosa, the fern Polystichum lonchitis and the three-leaved rush Juncus trifidus. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Pixy knew by the change of tone that peace had again spread its blessed wings over the "three-leaved clover," and to show his approbation he fawned upon all three with impartial effusiveness. ❋ George Lang (N/A)
The tulip has a tendency to produce double flowers: one specimen seen with a regular three-leaved perianth, eight stamina, and four carpellary ovary, angles opposite the outer perianth leaves; the upper leaf or bract has a tendency to become petaloid. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Physicians skilled in magic applied three seeds of three-leaved grass to tertian ague, and four to a quartian. ❋ James Grant (N/A)
There were three boys in the same class in the polytechnic school in the mountainous Odenwald country, in Hesse Darmstadt, who were such great friends and inseparable companions that the other pupils named them "the three-leaved clover." ❋ George Lang (N/A)
While their fair flocks the three-leaved pastures bite, ❋ Various (N/A)
This ball is finished by a cover of thin leather, cut in the form of a three-leaved clover and neatly sewed on with a waxed thread. ❋ Alfred Rochefort (N/A)
The pure white flower -- more than an inch across -- is somewhat distant from the handsome three-leaved involucrum, and is supported by a wiry flower stalk, 3in. to 5in. long; it is about the same length from the root, otherwise the plant is stemless. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Arum crinitum 35. hairy, 35. three-leaved, 33. triphyllum, 33. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Then there were swamps set thick with dingy-leaved alders, where the three-leaved arum and the skunk's-cabbage grew broad and succulent, -- shelving down into black boggy pools here and there, at the edge of which the green frog, stupidest of his tribe, sat waiting to be victimized by boy or snapping-turtle long after the shy and agile leopard-frog had taken the six-foot spring that plumped him into the middle of the pool. ❋ Various (N/A)
Poison (trifoliolate, or _three-leaved_) ivy resembles Virginia Creeper, and all nurses and caretakers should be able to recognize it. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)
The cherry-orchard scene was effectively produced on a small stage by a blue-green back-drop with a single conventionalized cherry-branch painted across it, and two three-leaved screens masking the wings, painted in blue-green with a spray of cherry blossoms. ❋ Floyd Dell (1928)
AFTER that, she went to her room and sat down before her three-leaved mirror. ❋ Unknown (1921)
But the tale is too long, though I should like to tell of the three-leaved Herb of Life by which Sigmund made Sinfioti alive again. ❋ Unknown (1915)
After that, she went to her room and sat down before her three-leaved mirror. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
But it was going to be such fun to surprise Mom Wallis with that bonnet and see her old face light up when she saw herself in the little folding three-leaved mirror she was taking along with her and meant to leave for Mom Wallis's log boudoir. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
Trefoil were much coveted nevertheless, and the white riband and beautifully designed three-leaved badge of the Grävenitz's Order were proudly worn by the highest dignitaries, and at Ludwigsburg the courtiers who were fortunate enough to possess the decoration were careful never to appear without it. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Around the main building clustered a great number of others: a baptistry; many chapels (one vaulted in the shape of a three-leaved clover) dedicated, probably, to local martyrs; a graveyard; a convent with its cells, and its windows narrow as loop-holes; stables, sheds, and barns. ❋ Louis Bertrand (1903)
