This riante dryad of the birches could be nothing to him.
This girl, with her length of limb and graceful breadth of shoulder, had greater affinity with the white birches delicately fluttering their light bright greens as they leaned eagerly toward the water and Sylvia.
The Basin was sparkling and waiting for her, the birches were bending forward in welcome.
The snowy stems of the birches seemed alive as they swayed forward, waving their lustrous banners across the tide.
He continued: "There is a spot over there in the woods near a thicket of white birches that I have selected as the spot for the ceremony.
All was soft darkness, save where the birchesglimmered dusky white, where the fireflies danced and shone.
White birches grew on the steep banks--you could see them glimmering through the dark--and the place was full of fireflies; the stream murmured drowsily over its pebbles.
She saw above her the green branches of the birches and the lovely pale faces.
So motionless stood the birches bewitched mysteriously by three fallen spirits.
At last a light trap, drawn by a horse in English harness, could be seen turning into the alley of birches and stopping before the house.
Just opposite the stone upon which Gunnar Hede was sitting was an islet overgrown with birches and poplars, and behind it the radiant evening sky, which was still flaming red.
Such bircheshe had only seen at good old country-houses.
He had only to look at the avenue of bircheswith all the names cut on the fine old trees.
Will no god be kind enough to spread a salve of birches over its sores?
This evil might easily have been remedied, at first, by spreading birches with their leaves on over the sand, and fastening them down with stakes, to break the wind.
On the opposite side of the valley the only trees were birches and willow, and it was curious that, at these comparatively low heights, there were no large rhododendrons or fir trees.
Soon the trees get scantier and scantier, pines disappear altogether and then birches and willows and junipers, until only dwarf rhododendrons (R.
The air seemed to tingle; the tall birches glistened, one sheen of feathery silver up to their tiniest towering twigs.
Thus the delicate spray of the Birches contrasted with the stout twigs of the Ailanthus, or the drooping twigs of the Weeping Willow with the erect growth of the Lombardy Poplar, give contrasts of the strongest character.
White hills rose above them, relieved here and there by a somber clump of cedars or leafless willows and birches in a ravine.
They had less difficulty here, for small cedars and birches crept down to the waterside and Jake found an ax-blaze on one.
On either side of it a gnarled and stunted growth of alders and birches fringed the foot of the steep slopes, and between them the stream spread out across a stretch of milk-white stones.
It was sprinkled with little ponds, and banded here and there with belts of stunted trees, small birches and willows, and ragged cedars that hid the oozy muskegs under them.
The fences, the stone walls of the scattered farms, and the huge boulders with which that part of the country is covered were buried out of sight; only the tops of the birches and of the fir and pine trees could be seen.
The channel was very winding and narrow, so that one could touch with a paddle the bank on either side, and in many places the birches and willows met over the stream, dropping yellow leaves upon our heads as we passed underneath.
A decoration of green from the pines that mixed with the birches had been suggested rather than executed, and was perhaps the more effective for its sketchiness.
His eyes were following a figure which seemed to be escaping up through the birches behind the snow castle and ploughing its way through the drifts; in front of the structure they had been levelled to make an easier battle-field.
They plunged into the smoke and squalor of the Five Towns, and reached Birches Street with pomp, while Annie wondered how William Henry would contrive to get credit from a cabman.
Hence it happened that Alderman Keats went as far as Crewe specially to buy blank cartridge, and he drowned the ball cartridge secretly in the Birches Pond.
There were a hundred and forty-two residences in Birches Street, Hanbridge, all alike, differing only in the degree of cleanliness of their window-curtains.
And a coral reef of ball cartridges might have appeared on the surface of Birches Pond had it not been for the visit (at enormous expense) of Hagentodt's ten tigers to the Hanbridge Empire.
There was a long row of white bircheshanging over the lake and the sunshine fell down through them, 'way, 'way down, deep into the water.
The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry trees were outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.
And good afternoon dearbirches down in the hollow.
The birches in the hollow waved joyful hands as if watching for Anne's usual morning greeting from the east gable.
A pair of white-birches lift their leafy crowns far above us, and after them we name the place Le Camp aux Bouleaux.
Tall white birches leaned out over the stream, Narcissus-like, as if to see their own beauty in the moving mirror.
A mile of quick water was soon passed, and we came to the junction of the Little Discharge with the Grand Discharge at the point where the picturesque club-house stands in a grove of birchesbeside the big Vache Caille Falls.
Beyond, a strip of meadow land, covered with young birches and poplars, just showing their tender, trembling foliage.
Upon the right, fluttering its golden foliage as if to attract our attention, a plantation of tall, satin-stemmed birches stretched for some distance along the railway.
From this hamlet to the storm-crushed crags glistening on the summit of Mount Willey the track of an old avalanche was still distinguishable, though the birches and alders rooted among the debris threatened to obliterate it at no distant day.
Over there, to the left, is the rustic bridge, and hard by a clump of peeled birches throw their grateful shade over the hot road.
From farm to farm they looked; there were so many birches and so many stars, but not the right ones.
It is quiet in the resting-place, and the leaves of the white birches rustle sadly.
It is as though those white birches could not forget all those weeping eyes, which have sought the sky betwixt their green branches, and as though it were no wind, but deep sighs which keep swaying the air and the fresh leaves.
At last they stopped where the ground was broken by a few low sandy ridges sprinkled with small birches and poplars, and Flett pointed to the mark of hoofs in a strip of almost bare, light soil.
Here and there small pines on the higher summits stood out black against the glaring crimson light; birches and poplars straggled up some of the slopes; and the trail, which wound through the hollows, was loose and heavy.
When he lives in dark woods he becomes a glossy red-brown; and when his haunt is among the birches he is often a decided gray.
What a giant that tree must have been, generations ago, in its days of strength; how puny the birches that now grow out of its roots!
Here and there birches and maples flung out their gorgeous banners of autumn over the silent water.
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