Sentence examples for shamrock from inspiring English sources

I can take the crack at the shamrock, though it's not funny.

"At least someone is drawing a decent wage," says one watching Dubliner.This year's St Patrick Day's parties were glum, even in Washington, where Brian Cowen, the Irish taoiseach, gave Barack Obama the usual bunch of shamrock (see above).

Tell both sides they are free to march under their flag of choice, wearing their flour-graders' suits and bowler hats, orange sashes, Fenian insignia, shamrock nosegays, whatever, and to sing their inflammatory songs.

His books have titles like "The Empty Raincoat" and "The Elephant and the Flea", and he talks of phenomena such as "the shamrock organisation" (companies with three leaves of employment: full-time workers; subcontractors/outsourcers; and part-time specialists) and "the portfolio worker" (people who have a number of "jobs, clients and types of work" simultaneously).

The Badge of the Order depicts three crowns with the order's motto, "Tria juncta in uno" ("Three joined in one"), as well as "Ich dien" ("I serve," the motto of the Prince of Wales), and the emblems of England, Scotland, and Ireland (rose, thistle, and shamrock, respectively).

Ireland is also renowned for its wealth of folklore, from tales of tiny leprechauns with hidden pots of gold to that of the patron saint, Patrick, with his legendary ridding the island of snakes and his reputed use of the three-leaved shamrock as a symbol for the Christian Trinity.

When Queen Elizabeth rose to speak at last night's state dinner in Dublin Castle, stylish in a white silk crepe state dress and the Queen Mary tiara, she had a little surprise up that shamrock-embroidered sleeve.

She leans into the embrasure of the window and begins to wave to the ranks of shamrock-bedecked men and women marching along the Avenue.

The smell competed with the acridity of hot wax and detergent chemicals at Nice Guys Car Wash, just across the street from the factory, and domesticated the beer fumes and late-night atmosphere at Stack's Tavern, a shamrock-bedecked bar between 234th and 236th Streets, where a bartender told me, "Sure, I remember the smell — fresh-baked cookies.

Ma's other company, Really Useful Products, makes his own line of novelty pens, party string, casino-chip key chains, and all manner of lighted objects (including safety wands, blinking-shamrock bracelets, and miniature reading lights that clip onto your ear).

Pearce becomes the second high profile non-league signing in the last few months following Damien Duff's 2015 deal to join Shamrock Rovers.