Word: four-leaf
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...lady of Dorset, who was an authority on Tudor church music, had an imagination that unpredictably "caught fire from facts," as she said of T.H. White in her biography of the author of The Once and Future King. Everything took on an enchanted significance for her-dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that she proffered...
...front of the theatre to create an Elizabethan tiring-house facade. A flat Tudor arch in the center is symmetrically flanked by two doors. Up above is a sizeable gallery that can be curtained, with window openings at both sides. There are a few modest decorations--trefoils and four-leaf flowers, along with a blue-and-gold fleur-de-lys curtain for the French court scenes...
...himself and his book on appeal to the state's highest court (his lawyers' fees:, $75,000). Now living in Ireland, Dacey released a thicker version of his manual last spring. He tries not to be bitter. "There are honest lawyers," says he, "just as there are four-leaf clovers...
...IDEAS--they can't really be called themes--that accumulates a certain weight of detail in the novel is superstition. Jennifer makes several references to finding coins and four-leaf clovers. She sees a rat in a restaurant and wonders whether it could be the same one she saw uptown a few weeks earlier. She always gives money to beggars, not as "a bribe to my own fortunes any longer. Even lighting candles in a church I have never prayed quite in specifics. It is just a habit now." She clings to her habits, though: they may be silly...
...Radcliffe possessed a four-leaf clover...