birch

• What is called the birch or “birk in Yule even’” was probably the Yule clog_. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Come along, Phil Mooney, there's fresh mate for you to carry, and come out Number 3, here's fresh ground for you to travel over Phil Mooney and the birch soon made their appearance: I was hoisted by the one and scourged by the other The first taste of the birch is anything but agreeable; I could only compare it to the dropping of molten lead. —  Percival Keene
• Even the master of Greenlawn opened his window and looked out and wondered, and at last crabby old Todkins, the gardener, opened his window, and even called the birch-broom boy up to listen; but they could not make out what the noise was. —  Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
• Some principals would have administered the cane or the birch, but I object to those instruments as being, like fighting, savage, brutal, and cruel, only to be used as a last resource, when ordinary punishments suitable for gentlemen fail. —  Burr Junior
• It is as if a storm had burst on a young birch, and torn it from its bank amid the grass and the heather, and an oak had grown up in its place, brought into life by the wind and the gale Velasco tossed off the Moselle and laughed bitterly: "I have done with pleasure," he said, "I have lived and I know life; that is all. —  The Black Cross

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