‘First turn to the right up by the long fir-wood,’ he enjoined. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They came to the fence, beyond which the young fir-wood bristled dense. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Madam Benita Odam — for the name of the man who turned the wheel proved to be John Odam — showed me into a little room containing two chairs and a fir-wood table, and sat down on a three-legged seat and studied me very steadfastly. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The houses, built of fir-wood, blazed like torches — a hundred and fifty flaming at once. ❋ Unknown (2003)
While Gimli and the two younger hobbits kindled a fire of brush - and fir-wood, and drew water, Aragorn tended Sam and Frodo. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
Just over the top of the hill they came on the patch of fir-wood. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly. ' ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
This had lasted a quarter of an hour when, the fire catching a splinter of fir-wood, a flash of light broke out, the shaving twisted and flamed, and a few rays of light flared to the end of the room. ❋ Erckmann-Chatrian (N/A)
Through the mist, which still hung heavy on the lake, we plunged into the fir-wood, and hurried on over its uneven carpet of moss and dwarf whortleberries. ❋ Various (N/A)
Alp-horn is a long tube of fir-wood having the same compass as the trumpet. ❋ Various (N/A)
Mauser perforates 55 inches of fir-wood at 12 metres distance. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)
Below us the hillside dipped three or four hundred feet in a sharp slant bushed over with young _darach_ wood; behind us hung a tremendous rock that few standing upon would think had a hollow heart Here was our refuge, and the dry and stoury alleys of the fir-wood we had traversed gave no clue of our track to them that might hunt us. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
The long light of the North was pale and clear, and the western sky shone luminous through the fir-wood that bordered the road. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus it came as a relief to his ear, the removal of an oppression little longer to be endured, when he heard behind him what were apparently the voices of the odd-looking uncouth natives he had seen a quarter of an hour ago lurking, silent but alert and peering, phantoms of old story rather than humans, in the fir-wood near a defile made by a brawling cataract. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Louisiana; which is chiefly owing to the fat with which {333} they rub their skin and their hair, and to their manner of defending themselves against the moskitos, which they keep off by lighting fires of fir-wood, and standing in the smoke. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
I looked up, and saw the sun sinking behind the thick fir-wood beside us, and the long dark shadows of the trees stretching downwards towards the shore. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
He crashed through bracken and bramble and through the fir-wood again, startling the sheltering birds by his hurry, emerging upon the face of the brae in sight of the _Jean_ and the sea. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Where doubtless many children had played, on the knowe below a single shrub of fir-wood beside the loch, Nan spread out the remains of her breakfast again and they prepared to make a meal. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
