birken

The green birken shades, where the wild lintie dwells,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Wi 'me, my kind dearie, O! At thorny bush, or birken tree,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

I 'll lead you to the birken bower, on yon burn side,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

They will be for the taking of a wheen puir callants (lads) that are jinking (hiding) in the hill birken

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

At Dewshill wood the mavis sings beside her birken nest,

Northumberland Yesterday and To-day 1908

And spring will cleed the birken shaw: [clothe, birch woods]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree,

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree,

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

The gorcock unalarmed crows among the moors and mosses -- the blackbird whistles in the birken shaw -- and the cony erects his ears at the mouth of his burrow, and whisks away frolicsome among the whins or heather.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

_'birken shaw, '_ I paused to examine if the council-fires were still burning on Bare-hill, but there was no smoke visible, neither was there

Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850