As the ice was not yet on the waters he took his birch canoe and paddled eastward as far as he could.

"The magistrates ordered them to receive the birch, usual way.

He ran deep down into the old tunnel and hid behind the rocks and climbed the birches, but the cubs hunted him out, go where he would.

Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its end, and, letting it down carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew it by a line along the birch, and so pulled the axe out again.

We dismounted our birch from the truck, and laid its lightness upon the stream.

My companion reloaded; the Indian fastened his birch, threw off his hat, adjusted his waistband, seized the hatchet, and set out.

Yet there was little underbrush hereabouts; the trees stood somewhat apart, well spaced; and in the clearings grew silver birch and maple, spearlike and slender, against the immense stems of spruce and hemlock.

But the student of our old literature, reading the jolly play, will feel that, though he could handle the birch upon occasion, there was in him a fine genial vein.

There was nice work with interarching birches among the other trees and in the meeting of the woods and the field, but the light on the leaves was the main act.

On the shore stood Hiawatha, Turned and waved his hand at parting; On the clear and luminous water Launched his birch canoe for sailing, From the pebbles of the margin Shoved it forth into the water; Whispered to it, "Westward!

How pleasant, as the yellowing sun declines, And with long rays and shades the landscape shines; To mark the birches' stems all golden light, That lit the dark slant woods with silvery white!

"Mr. Bowater isn't so young as he looks, and he was too good a boy ever to need the birch.

No, he had never seen this glen nor the mountains round about; and never had he noticed such puny and shrunken birches as those under which he now lay.

Said Goethe, "Ruysdael never placed a foliaged birch in the foreground, but only broken birch stems, without leaves.

Often, when a portage was not quite necessary, a dangerous bit of white water would require the birch to be lightened.

The sheshum or sissod, a tree with bright green leaves much resembling the birch, the wood of which is invaluable for cart wheels and such-like work, is occasionally met with.

Here all the trees were gnarled and dwarfed above the patches of rust-coloured bracken; save only the delicate silver birch, which swayed and yielded to the wind.

Almost as soon as he had seen the birches, though, they were beyond them.

Broken Tooth himself selected a big birch that leaned over the stream, and began the work of cutting through the ten-inch butt with his three long teeth.

The bonfire was made by setting up four tall birches in a square and piling the intermediate space with fuel.

On the higher peaks and ridge-crests of the mountains there were straggling birches and pines, hemlocks and balsam firs; elsewhere, oaks, chestnuts, hickories, maples, beeches, walnuts, and great tulip trees grew side by side with many other kinds.

Know ye that he has never tasted the birch at Eton, nor trodden the flags of Carfax, nor paced the academic flats of Trumpington?

He thrust the birch under the old Indian's eyes.

See that treeheem birch, with bark off?

Herrick tells us it was formerly the practice to use birch and spring-flowers for decorative purposes at Whitsuntide: "When yew is out then birch comes in, And May-flowers beside, Both of a fresh and fragrant kinne, To honour Whitsontide.