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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

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These processes need to be understood a little better by the popples of Noosa Shire and else where, I still struggle with them myself, before we get to excited about the weight which we assign to them. — Sydney Indymedia - Comments
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
Against the sky showed a fringe of delicate popples, like spray frozen in the rise. — The Rules of the Game
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