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
Among the evidence they gathered were purchase orders for birch plywood emailed from Boise’s Pompano office, including some that arrived after investigators conducted their raid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
It looked at three trees common in Europe - birch, alder and olive - and found pollination started one to two weeks earlier between 2015 and 2024, compared with 1991 to 2000.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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
Earlier, he’d collected flat stones from the creek and piled them carefully near a birch grove.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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
On another visit to the North Cascades, I saw vine maples alternating with birches and alders in deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
“White birches were selected because the foliage is transparent,” Ruppert said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2020
Then I heard a cry in the grasses up near the white birches.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
They go on for ever, past all bearing; I must do something—stand on my head, pluck some one’s stool away, or tickle Robin with a straw, if I am birched the next moment.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
During this time two boys were birched by the queen's orders, and an officer was sent out to inquire why the watch he had given her did not go.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
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
The rooms were full of politicians and their wives, of members just arrived from the House, of Ministers smiling at each other with lifted eyebrows, like boys escaped from a birching.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
"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
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
