Sentence examples for trefoil from inspiring English sources

In October 1519, for instance, Babur rode out to Istalif with friends: "Its lawns were one sheet of trefoil; its pomegranate trees yellowed to autumn splendour, their fruit full red".

He was delighted that lichens made patterns on his York stone paths, and that wild birds-foot trefoil colonised the Sunken Garden.

Their "tortoise" (7th to early 11th century), trefoil (9th 11th century), and circular brooches are generally decorated with symmetrical designs of considerable beauty.

Some major forage legumes of the temperate world include clovers, alfalfa, bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), and vetches.

In the tropics or arid regions, some of the important elements of the habitat are species of Glycine (soybean), Stylosanthes, and Desmodium (tick trefoil).

The facades of the palaces evolved stylistically from their original Byzantine form, characterized by tall, narrow arches those of the early Gothic period (13th to early 14th century) pointed and Moorish-looking and those of the 15th century adorned with fantastic trefoil and quatrefoil tracery.

The trefoil-shaped face of the golden snub-nosed monkey is pale blue, and adult males develop strange red swellings at the corners of the mouth.

4. Called desmodium, or tick-trefoil, if you're interested.

He'd already bid farewell to a Bavarian schloss, had put a Bahamian island up for sale, was on the point of doing the same with a trefoil-shaped castle near Bath, and was in a bate about the fact that four of his other mansions were being foreclosed upon.

The yellow carpets of bird's foot-trefoil, or "eggs and bacon" as I prefer to call it, dominated the scene.

Her latest novel, Jonathan Unleashed, gives starring roles to an endearing pair – Sissy the spaniel and a border collie named Dante – who've come to live with the "pale and nervy" art school graduate Jonathan Trefoil in his Manhattan apartment.