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Birchen   Listen
adjective
Birchen  adj.  Of or relating to birch. "He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Birchen" Quotes from Famous Books



... goldfinches arrest their flight, And wheeling round a birchen tree alight Deep in its glittering leaves; and stay Till scared at our approach, when they Strike ...
— My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale • Thomas Woolner

... an excursion for the purpose of trying our canoe. A heavy gale came on in the evening which caused a great swell in the lake and in crossing the waves we had the satisfaction to find that our birchen vessel proved an ...
— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin

... of mountain-peaks Vex my unshadowed creeks; Dark woods o'erhang my silvery birchen bowers; And islands, bald and high, Break my clear round of sky, And ghostly odors blow from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various

... example of corporal punishment inflicted by law in that neighborhood, though the whipping-post remained in its place for several years, a possible terror to future evildoers. "Spare the rod, spoil the child," was the Draconian code then; and the rod, in the shape of a little bundle of birchen twigs, bound together with a small cord, was generally suspended on a nail against the wall in the kitchen, and was as much a part of the necessary furniture as the crane that hung in the fireplace or the shovel ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant

... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk: he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew upon his head; but now, should this, our broomstick, pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, ...
— Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell • Anonymous

... fatigue to our quarters at the far end of the village. The landscape that morning showed dirty yellow through the solid rain, and the sky was dark as a slated roof. The downpour flogged the horse-trough as with birchen rods. Along the walls, human shapes went in shrinking files, ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name ... And all in sight doth rise a birchen tree. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer



Words linked to "Birchen" :   birch, woody, birken



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