| The sun was intensely hot in the enclosed valley, and we found the shade of the birchen groves very grateful. |
| When he had reached the shore he went up into a birchen copse, and made the lions lie quiet. |
| In those days the lazy waters of the Loire flowed midst osier-beds and birchen thickets, since removed for purposes of navigation. |
| I said to my Indian, and swept the birchen craft out into the deep and steady current. |
| Better by far it seemed to me had the wolves taken my life, or I had been burnt as a birchen tree. |
| The heat from the birchen logs and the sizzling jack-pine penetrated her. |
