What is "birchen"

Usage examples of "birchen".

Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark.

Already Spring kindles the birchen spray, And the hoar pines already feel her breath: Shall she not work also within our limbs?

Hiawatha Led the strangers to his wigwam, Seated them on skins of bison, Seated them on skins of ermine, And the careful old Nokomis Brought them food in bowls of basswood, Water brought in birchen dippers, And the calumet, the peace-pipe, Filled and lighted for their smoking.

To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood.

These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect,--and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom.

How fondly she greets him from dale and from park, From loving names growing in White birchen bark, From hills where flourish The oaks which the ashes of heroes nourish.

Ye birchen trees, whose bark I carved delighted With many runes, still wedded to the spot Your white stems stand, crown-capped with sunshine golden, All save myself unchanged since days now olden.

Naked Indians with their faces daubed with red clay, Algonquins and Abenakis, clustered round the ship in their birchen canoes with fruit and vegetables from the land, which brought fresh life to the scurvy-stricken soldiers.

They include: The Festival of the Passions, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, The Curtain Drawn Up, The Bagnio Miscellany, The Birchen Bouquet, and The Lustful Turk.

To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood.

How fondly she greets him from dale and from park, From loving names growing in White birchen bark, From hills where flourish The oaks which the ashes of heroes nourish.