birch
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Michalski used a slow shutter speed to photograph birds flying across a background of leafless birch trees.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Scientists have discovered that birch tar, a material commonly associated with prehistoric toolmaking, has antibacterial properties that could have made it useful as an ancient form of medicine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
When the researchers tested their samples, every type of birch tar they produced was able to inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium commonly associated with wound infections.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
This suggests that the bacteria-inhibiting properties of birch tar were not dependent on one particular production method.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
As Torak followed the sound, the ground got stonier, and the trees shrank to waist-high birch and willow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
A sudden wind rustled through the birches; a gust of yellow leaves came storming down.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
He had birched it down to Lake Chesuncook in by-gone summers, to see Katahdin distant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops who then occupied the bench had been birched with his "little rod".
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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
One must have one's birching with the others, and of necessity there remains but to make the best of it.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
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 F. Anstey
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