birch
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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
The warm weather seen in the UK over the last two years means conditions have been ideal for birch tree pollen - a major hay fever trigger.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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
“This is crazy,” he said aloud to Derek next to him, but the rain took the words away and he leaned against a birch and closed his eyes and, finally, took it.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
Not twenty feet to his right, leaning out over the water were birches and he stood looking at them for a full half-minute before they registered on his mind.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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
"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
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
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
