birch
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Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Days after federal agents raided a South Florida wood importer’s warehouse and seized stacks of Chinese-made birch plywood, an order for another load of the illegal panels arrived from a big building-products distributor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Chinese white-birch plywood sandwiches sheets of white poplar wood between outer layers of birch veneer, which is peeled from logs that are typically harvested in Siberian forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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
The shock of first seeing a birch tree at night, rising up in the dark as cool and slim as a ghost.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
The mountains here have been gouged by heavy machinery and stripped of sugar maples, yellow birches and other trees native to this stretch of Mineral County.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
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
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
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
I hated this, and would rather have been birched secundum artem than to have seen the girls giggling at me.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
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
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lot of rubbish from Confucius, with a farrago of useless knowledge anent the breeching and birching of babies in Japan.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
"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 Adolf Hausrath
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 Oliver Bell Bunce
