Fir

Examples

• The original chewing gum was spruce gum, the exudation of the cut branches of the spruce or fir tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I left it behind me, opened a little gate in a ring fence, and found myself in a plantation of fir-trees. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He went through the long grass to a clump of young fir-trees, that were no higher than a man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Galileo, to whom the advance in exact science is so largely indebted, must also be credited with the fir st apparatus for the measurement of temperatures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The sand and heath and the fir-trees are the only objects I can discover, in all this large place, to remind me of Limmeridge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Duffy was certain that the girl had passed him in the fir-plantation, not walking, but RUNNING, in the direction of the sea-shore. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I'll hang about in the fir plantation, and wait till you pick me up. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The oak, fir, hemlock and sumach are the most familiar of the many trees from which tannin is obtained for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He pointed, as he spoke, to the fir-plantation which led to the Shivering Sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• When one speaks of conifers in the Mesozoic the reader must not think of the pines and firs that clothe the high mountain slopes of our time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first place in which I can now see myself again plainly is the plantation of firs. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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