birch-trees

While he held this conversation with himself, Sir Piercie Shafton was hastening to the little tuft of birch-trees which had been assigned as the place of meeting.

The Monastery 2008

Sometimes we traversed swamps swarming with bullfrogs, on corduroy roads which nearly jolted us out of the vehicle, then dreary levels abounding in spindly hacmetac, hemlock, and birch-trees; next we would go down into a cedar-swamp alive with mosquitoes.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Among the light brittle twigs of the birch-trees blue-tits hopped whistling.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Half a mile from the stream, on the right side of Long Meadow, began the sloping, undulating uplands, studded here and there with old birch-trees, nut bushes, and guelder-roses.

The Jew and other stories 2006

On the dry moss, on the crimson grasses, on the soft dust of the road, on the slender stems and pure little leaves of the young birch-trees, lay the clear soft light of the no longer scorching, sinking sun.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

Casting her eyes around, to see that no one was near us, she drew up her horse beneath a few birch-trees, which screened us from the rest of the hunting-field — “Do you see yon peaked, brown, heathy hill, having something like a whitish speck upon the side?”

Rob Roy 2005

Now the last storm had brought down a number of large birch-trees, the bark of which would be perfectly suited for their purpose.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Now the last storm had brought down a number of large birch-trees, the bark of which would be perfectly suited for their purpose.

The Mysterious Island 2005

There were birch-trees ahead of him where the wood ended, and between their stems and branches he could see the misty distance.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

As the copse became sparser, and the pines were interspersed with young birch-trees, Meliton saw a herd.

The Witch, and other stories 2004