Adjective : birchen furniture. From Dictionary.com.
They subsist on berries and birchen-buds -- dainty fare, is it not?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We emerged from the birchen grove upon the river, below a brilliant cascading rapid. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
'Then Osmotar called one of the Kalevala maidens and bade her step into the birchen tub. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
But the fragrant birchen logs sputtered and glowed, darting out playful tongues of flame. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
And all this time his knee was bleeding, so that the blood was enough to fill seven huge birchen pots. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
Their bowes are very short, like Turkie bowes outright, Of sinowes made with birchen barke, in cunning maner dight. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
It was now about the middle of June, and some fifty birchen canoes have just been launched upon the waters of Green Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Yet these fair curves, and liberal reaches, and bright rapids of the birchen-bowered river were only solitary, not lonely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
“Had I my will, madam,” answered Lilias, “a good birchen wand should make his colour muster to better purpose still.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
But the oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
The downpour flogged the horse-trough as with birchen rods. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
Of sinowes made with birchen barke, in cunning maner dight. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04] Reference
And the women in birchen canoes well laden with rice from the meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of the Northwest] Reference
She took out her chest of simples, a quaintly-made birchen-bark receptacle. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Quebec] Reference
To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
We'll sell it to a chimney-sweeper: it will wear out ten birchen brooms, I warrant you. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616] Reference
When he had reached the shore he went up into a birchen copse, and made the lions lie quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
Below, however, were still fresh meadows, twinkling birchen groves and comfortable farm-houses. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
After another eight days the same thing happened, and this time Boots stuck out his birchen pin. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
The sun was intensely hot in the enclosed valley, and we found the shade of the birchen groves very grateful. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
But alas! as his school increased in numbers, he had proportionately recanted these honorable and anti-birchen ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Clothed in furs and with a birchen staff in his hand, the defeated emperor marches like a simple soldier in the front. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
Little troughs of basswood and birchen basins were also made to receive the sweet drops as they trickled from the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Child Life] Reference
Louisiana; besides their journey up the St. Peter's had rendered them familiar with the management of their birchen craft. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Now one of the birchen basins was set under each tree, and a hardwood chip driven deep into the cut which the axe had made. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Child Life] Reference
Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference
It would require a strong arm and a cool head to force the birchen craft through these obstacles to the shore on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters of the Ozark] Reference
Muonio, until we reached the birchen ridge of Suontajärvi, with its beautiful firs rising here and there, silent and immovable. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
The sap was collected by the women in tin or birchen buckets and poured into the canoes, from which the kettles were kept filled. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Child Life] Reference
She made it into cakes of various forms, in birchen molds, and sometimes in hollow canes or reeds, and the bills of ducks and geese. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Child Life] Reference
"It is not as handsomely turned as I have seen a canoe in birchen bark, but comfort may be taken in a wigwam as well as in a palace.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
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