popples

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Past the ramshackle farm of the first neighbor to the north, past the little deserted country school house, past the pressed-steel home of a would-be agriculturist, which had rusted to an artistic red, and down to the winding river which flanked the hamlet through banks lined with white birches and graceful poplars--"popples" the hired man called them.

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  • Past the ramshackle farm of the first neighbor to the north, past the little deserted country school house, past the pressed-steel home of a would-be agriculturist, which had rusted to an artistic red, and down to the winding river which flanked the hamlet through banks lined with white birches and graceful poplars--"popples" the hired man called them. —  A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
  • Far below, at their feet, they saw that vast assemblage of birches and "popples," yellow as gold in the brooding noonday, and slender spires rising out of the glowing mass. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • She tore through briers, popples, moose-maples alike. —  Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
  • the zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun THE LOVE CHILD Where the bridge out at Woodley did stride Wi' his wide arches' cool sheäded bow Up above the clear brook that did slide By the popples, befoam'd white as snow As the gilcups did quiver among The white deäisies, a-spread in a sheet There a quick-trippčn maďd come along Aye, a girl wi' her light-steppčn veet An' she cried "I do pra˙, is the road Out to Lincham on here, by the meäd An' "oh! —  Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
  • Past the ramshackle farm of the first neighbor to the north, past the little deserted country school house, past the pressed-steel home of a would-be agriculturist, which had rusted to an artistic red, and down to the winding river which flanked the hamlet through banks lined with white birches and graceful poplars -- "popples" the hired man called them. —  A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
 

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