birken
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of birken
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at birk, -en 2
Example Sentences
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I 'll hail Lochaber's valleys green, Where many a rill meanders; I 'll hail wi' joy, its birken bowers, For there Louisa wanders.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Those birken trees, how they perfume the summer air around us!
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
O weary Winter soon will pass, And Spring will cleed the birken shaw; And my young babie will be born, And he'll be hame that's far awa.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Beneath a hill 'mang birken bushes, By a burnie's dimplit linn, I told my love with artless blushes To the lassie o' the glen.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
I'll visit aft the birken bush Where first thou kindly tauld me Sweet tales o' love, and hid my blush, Whilst round thou didst infauld me.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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