"Silver birch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feet above the fertile valley of the Youle, stretched a waste of moorland. Here all the trees were gnarled and dwarfed above the patches of rust-coloured bracken; save only the delicate silver birch, which swayed and yielded ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... out from behind the piano and stood in front of him, as erect as a silver birch, and as slim and young. There was a ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... in sunshine. Some of them are like gigantic wildernesses of upheaved pudding stone. Then, as the voyage progresses, the hillsides put on greenery, sombre when it is pine, cheerful when the hangings are supplied by the silver birch, and bright ever when the emerald patches bear testimony to the industry of the farmer, winning his scanty harvests against heavy odds. The calling places are numerous, but often consist of some half a dozen houses of the usual weatherboard, ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... done," confirmed the professor. "Did you notice the curious light effect on that silver birch at the left?" ...
— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... underbrush hereabouts; the trees stood somewhat apart, well spaced; and in the clearings grew silver birch and maple, spearlike and slender, against the immense stems of spruce and hemlock. But for occasional prostrate monsters, and the boulders of grey rock that thrust uncouth shoulders here and there out of the ground, it might well have ...
— The Wendigo • Algernon Blackwood |
