Example Sentences

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She dropped his hand, and stooped over the edge of clovered grass.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

Daisied and clovered fields the calf was dragged through; young corn and potato lots suffered alike by the pressure of hoof and foot.

From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.

Beneath him the clovered hill-slope was warm in the sun.

From Song in a Minor Key by Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile)

It was a kind-looking Road now, all gracious and sweet and tender, with rustly green overhead, and soft green underfoot, and the pleasant, buzzing drone of bees along its clovered edges.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

There lay a man on clovered ground Whose life was death, he slept so sound; A child bent low to watch his eyes— He smiling waked, and saw the skies.

From Songs of Womanhood by Alma-Tadema, Laurence