Jammed with gossip goodies as it is, Red Carpets transcends the anecdotal with a silver-birch prose style reminiscent of Christopher Isherwood and an acute understanding and sympathy of the frailties of flesh and morale so cruelly exposed by the celebrity spotlight and left to hang dry. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
He gave Burden a sullen glare, sat down on a stack of silver-birch logs and began to roll a cigarette. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1970)
It saves locks and hinges, even nails, or, the native equivalent, tying with silver-birch twigs; but it is a ramshackle sort of contrivance nevertheless. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
His flight in search of food had daily led him farther on, till he had discovered and explored the Rosedale Creek, with its banks of silver-birch, and Castle Frank, with its grapes and rowan berries, as well as Chester woods, where amelanchier and Virginia-creeper swung their fruit-bunches, and checkerberries glowed beneath the snow. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
North and south in front of the school the road ran through the deep forest of great pines, with underbrush of balsam and spruce and silver-birch; but from this main road ran little blazed paths that led to the farm clearings where lay the children's homes. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
The stems of a few silver-birch near at hand were rosy now, and suddenly the snow took a similar tint. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)
Not far off, and springing from the summit of a great ruin, where long ago a seed had fallen, rose a great silver-birch, and the half-transparent, drooping branches and hanging clusters of leaf broke the outline of the grey hills beyond, for the hills were, for a wonder, grey instead of blue. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)
It was down in a glen beyond the fir-wood; and here the ordinary desolation of this bleak coast ceased, for there were plenty of young larches on the sides of the glen, with a tall silver-birch or two; while down in the hollow there were clumps of alders by the side of the brawling stream. ❋ William Black (1869)
How many gay warblers following the sun, have radiated from this nest of silver-birch and thistledown. ❋ Henry David Thoreau (1839)
And the odd thing is that although this is where she lives - in an impressive modern house on the edge of Lake Lucille with a plane on the lawn, a TV studio being built in her living room (she's recently become a Fox News pundit) and a sour-faced security guard manning the silver-birch lined driveway - Sarah Palin is conspicuous by her absence. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The silver-birch 1964 DB5 with its ejector seat, rotating number plates, armour-plated rear screen and machine guns in the wings was purchased from Aston Martin in 1969 by Philadelphia broadcasting boss Jerry Lee for $12,000. ❋ Unknown (2010)
