birchen

• “Down nearly to the ground the pole was dressed with birchen boughs, and others of the liveliest green, and some with silvery leaves, fastened by ribbons that fluttered in fantastic knots of twenty different colors, but no sad ones.”

  Happy May Day! And Guest Post Tomorrow.

• ““Had I my will, madam,” answered Lilias, “a good birchen wand should make his colour muster to better purpose still.””

  The Abbot

• “Jones; “but that will not happen, unless you had the same birchen argument to convince me.” — “Then I must tell you plainly,” said Thwackum, “I am resolved to discover the wicked wretch.” — “And I must tell you plainly,” returned Jones, “I am resolved you shall not.””

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

• “To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood.”

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

• “These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect, — and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom. —”

  Washington Irving

• “She struck the hearth with the birchen branch, and lo! the barleycorns flew into the pot, and the hearth was clean.”

  The Red Fairy Book

• “Their bowes are very short, like Turkie bowes outright, Of sinowes made with birchen barke, in cunning maner dight.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “In the dim morning light they walked briskly to a little cove in the river, where Micah's birchen canoe lay, and found it already stored with supplies for the excursion.”

  Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick

• “They were obliged to carry their light, birchen canoes from home, and these were packed with the necessary tackle, skins for beds, &c. The strong men of the party carried the canoes on their shoulders, and the women the smaller articles of furniture.”

  Sanders' Union Fourth Reader

• “And it is not surprising to learn that here, as he himself tells us, his vigorous energies made acquaintance with that 'birchen altar' at which most of the best blood in England has been disciplined.”

  Henry Fielding: a Memoir

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