It's a birch tree.

The birch has white bark.

Birch trees have white bark.

Birch trees have white bark.

The firewood is usually birch.

That veneer of fragmented and incomprehensible normalcy.

The birch leaves have already turned yellow.

Why do birch trees have white bark?

And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

'Then it's down in the Birch Valley that they are sowing the clover?

'What difference is there between the white boleti and the birch tree variety?'

Mr Ditta has betrayed this trust and attempted to hide behind the veneer of his profession.

He was long unable to strike a match against the bark of a birch.

That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.

It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.

Produced by Martin Birch, Heaven and Hell was released on 25 April 1980, to critical acclaim.

After that they drove to the river, left the horses under the birch trees, and entered the bathing house.

Such power also serves as the moral veneer to the assertiveness often involved in the pursuit of any particular cause or interest.

This is one reason why London has experienced the other, darker side of the multicultural society the veneer of multiculturalism is thin.

'Yes, tell me what is happening in Pokrovsk Is the house still standing, and the birch trees, and our schoolroom?

'The stem of the birch tree boletus reminds one of a dark man's beard two days old,' remarked Koznyshev calmly.

Beneath the veneer of integration into a multicultural environment, many people especially young men with an immigrant background are lost in the world of contradictions around them.

The veneer of liberal enlightenment worn those who hope to uncover Iran is in many ways more disturbing than the outright racist discourses seen in the past.

Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.

And before you head back home, be sure to have at least one banya, a Russian sauna, for a birch branch smacking and afterwards, its therapeutic benefits.

On that day, Vitaly Aleksandrovich went out into the woods, as per usual, to collect honey fungus and birch boletus mushrooms, but he hadn't returned by the evening.

Only the hum of flies, like that of a swarm of bees, sounded continually high up in the birch trees beneath which he stood, and occasionally the children's voices reached him.

Diaries, letters from the days of the English empire, maps outlining who owned what You'd think land disputes would be boring, says Rhodes, but there was this one birch tree two families were fighting over.

At last one match did burn up, and the scented smoke of the cigar, like a broad swaying sheet definitely outlined, moved forwards and upwards over the bush under the overhanging branches of the birch tree.

He himself went to a forked birch on the other side and, leaning his gun against the fork of the lower branch, took off his coat, tightened his girdle, and tried whether he could move his arms freely.

Last year's grass grew green again and new blades came up like needle points, buds swelled on the guelder rose and currant bushes and on the sticky, spicy birch trees, and among the golden catkins and on the willow branches the bees began to hum.

Roughly the Japanese equivalent of Opus Dei, the Moral Majority and the John Birch Society all rolled up into one, Nippon Kaigi counts Prime Minister Abe as a special advisor to its parliamentary caucus, and is thought to hold strong influence over the Japanese government..

AGATHA MIKHAYLOVNA WENT out on tiptoe the nurse pulled down the blind, drove away the flies from under the muslin curtain of the cot and also a bumble bee that was buzzing against the window pane, and sat down, waving a birch branch above the mother and child.

Whoever thought that NATO that most successful expression of transatlantic solidarity had found new cohesion after the divisive Iraq crisis should visit the alliance's headquarters. True, the Istanbul summit in late June produced a veneer of harmony, and NATO headquarters is, as usual, busying itself with frequent meetings of now 26 national delegations, innumerable committees, and the mountains of printed paper it churns out.

'Do I not know that it is not the stars that are moving?' he asked himself, looking at a bright planet that had already shifted its position by the top branch of a birch tree. 'But I, watching the movement of the stars, cannot picture to myself the rotation of the earth and I am right in saying that the stars move.