clovery
- a word derived from clover.
Example Sentences
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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
Before him and behind him wound a road that ran like a red ribbon through fields of lush clovery green.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
The horses are out and grazing on the clovery sward by the roadside.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
If a clovery lea be beneath his feet, so much the better; if not, a “rive” at a blackthorn hedge, a bush of laurels, a bracken bank, or even a thistle, will please him.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
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
