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When called upon to speak, they all made expected remarks to the effect that, although Indiana's pastures are rich, its meadows clovery and enchanted, the pen is mightier than the sward.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next year some more of the same clovery thing came up in the middle of a gravel path, where it was not wanted; was that gratitude?

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

As for her every-day life, nobody's fires burned, nobody's windows shone like Martha Yarrow's; not a pound of butter went to market with the creamy, clovery taste her fingers worked into hers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

We are once more settled for the night and settled for the Sabbath, in a delightful clovery meadow near a fine old Yorkshire farm, round which blue-rock pigeons are flying in clouds.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

Midday halt at cross roads, on a large patch of clovery grass.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon