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
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
At this time of year tree pollen, and particularly birch, is the main reason why people may be suffering from hay fever.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
“You’re mad ’cause we lost,” Nuah says, leaning back on the sole tree in Dad’s front yard, a birch, not even trying to peer over at my ongoing voodoo job on his photo.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
Biters told me they look for silvery, bright white birches with dusky pink or tan-colored inner bark that’s pliable and free of knots.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
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
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
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
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
He could, not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
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
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
