birch
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The cars are connected to charging points by the garages for the flats, which are in traditional red buildings bordered by birch trees and a large golf course.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Red brick buildings stand alongside towering maple, oak, birch and sycamore trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
The DB5 Vantage in silver birch grey owned by Mr Williams is one of only 39 such models in the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
She slammed the trunk of the birch with a big rotten stick.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Around 700,000 years ago, dense forests of pines, birches, and chestnut relatives gave way to more open habitats with larger patches of grassland.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
Hiking north, the trunks are almost as pale as birches, even though more texture is visible; in fact, they are members of the same family, Betulaceae.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Overhead, woodpeckers tapped their rhythmic codes into the dead wood of paper birches.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
He found some birches near the shoreline and shredded dry birch bark with his fingernails until it was like hair.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, but that was not the last of my adventures, for I was recognized by another tory, who had been birched by some of our men for his treachery.
From The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys by De Morgan, John
At Eton, a great deal of Snobbishness was thrashed out of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impartiality.
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do believe that I am trembling like a refractory scholar with a prospective birching.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution by Bunce, Oliver Bell
"Good, then he goes also with us to Heidelberg, and if he be not found guilty of more devilish arts, he will nevertheless get his quantum satis of birching for ridiculing the district magistrate."
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
If you'd worked harder at College and done me credit, you'd 'a' been a feller of your college, or a judge in an Indian court, by this time, instead of birching naughty little boys.'
From The Giant's Robe by Anstey, F.
