She cut away the birchbark cast and examined the boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Ayla had put the birchbark cast on her arm that morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
I'll boil some black birchbark and bring the tea to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
What but the red flower in its birchbark case had wrought the change?. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
(Stuart in his birchbark canoe with summer memories stamped on the bow.). From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Paver - An interview with author] Reference
The basket, divided into sections by flexible birchbark, was full of food. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
"Might be," admitted Nat, "but what's that got to do with making birchbark gas?". From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays] Reference
I'll get birchbark when he's asleep, and maybe I can make some crutches for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Whereat the gallant smilingly tossed the meat and its birchbark platter at the woman's feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Talut pointed to a piece of charred birchbark, held down by the broken end of the left tusk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
They laugh at our four big tree trunks and birchbark siding, but we didn't blow away, did we?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
We are literally still in the birchbark canoe stage of space exploration, testing the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Why Some Say the Moon? - NASA Watch] Reference
The birchbark containers were set off to the side to cool until the sunflower seed butter congealed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
With a cry the girl sprang back, crushing the birchbark case with its red flower into shapeless ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
She offered a birchbark cup and held out the cool, dripping waterbag made from the stomach of a mountain goat. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
A dating with the archaeological service of the canton Berne showed that the birchbark is nearly 5000 years old. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit] Reference
Domino Inn was a large ungainly building with small windows, completely sided with a patchwork of white birchbark. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
They stood at the edge of an icefield at the Schnidejoch above Lenk, when they discovered a birchbark arrow-quiver. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit] Reference
I saw a tall black elephant carrying a huge open howdah with what appeared to be a birchbark canoe used as a canopy. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
Among them are a birchbark arrow-quiver, some stone arrowheads as well as fragments of Stone Age leather shoes and trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit] Reference
Their origin, however, was not the most pressing question in my mind as I saw them bundling Ulric into a large birchbark canoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
The troughs in the cement become shallow graves; the birchbark on her wrists in one of the Daphne images is a bracelet and also a bandage. From Wordnik.com. [When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work] Reference
Today came one from the forest bringing love's message to that tall woman of Grand Portage, -- the little red flower in the birchbark case. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
For that I had you stay here all day, making a birchbark basket. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade's Double Dare] Reference
Out of a strip of birchbark the lad twisted a cup and gave the child to drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage] Reference
He piled up dry needles over a precious bit of his birchbark and struck a flame. From Wordnik.com. [Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail] Reference
Excepting at meal time and the bathing hour, they spent the day in a birchbark canoe on the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Lydia of the Pines] Reference
He turned to Lord Meton, and repeated the words; and just then the birchbark began to settle under them. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson Brown] Reference
As gently as Mukoki had unrolled the precious birchbark map a few months before he smoothed out the paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds] Reference
They ain't never slep 'on balsam-boughs nor got a whiff o' a birchbark fire, nor tramped a bed o 'ferns at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Under Dog] Reference
"Oh, collections of butterflies, flower-prints, willow-work, and birchbark articles -- all these are fancy touches.". From Wordnik.com. [Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks] Reference
'Come, get a fire started,' he commanded, drawing out the precious matchbox with its attendant strips of dry birchbark. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
In the bottom lay an object wrapped up in pieces of old cloth and birchbark, which, from its form, was evidently a human body. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land] Reference
The boats were made of birchbark laced on a wooden framework with fibrous roots, like the toy skiff Mother Elle had made for little Peder. From Wordnik.com. [Days of the Discoverers] Reference
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