fir-trees

It was silent as death under the fir-trees, close as a tomb, and dim.

Fiancée 2010

Believe me, yes! beneath the fir-trees as I sit in silence.

The Bacchantes 2008

Believe me, yes! beneath the fir-trees as I sit in silence.

The Bacchantes 2008

The bridge itself had been long decayed, but a temporary passage of fir-trees and planks had been constructed, apparently very lately, which admitted them to the chief entrance of the castle.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

She had left the young man by that time (for it took a few minutes to get me thoroughly well shook together), and the young man was leaning against another of the fir-trees, — of which there was a cluster, — with his face upon his arm.

Doctor Marigold 2007

She had left the young man by that time (for it took a few minutes to get me thoroughly well shook together), and the young man was leaning against another of the fir-trees, — of which there was a cluster, — with his face upon his arm.

Doctor Marigold 2007

What was this park, with avenues of lopped lime-trees, with isolated fir-trees of the shape of parasols, with porticoes and temples in the Pompadour style, with statues of satyrs and nymphs of the

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

What he had forgotten was that there was a thousand young fir-trees to be planted in a neighboring spot which had been cleared by the wood-cutters, and that he had arranged to plant them with his own hands.

The Woodlanders 2006

Behind on the little hill the darkling woods lie calm, the edges of the fir-trees cut sharp against the sky, which is clear with a crescent moon and the lambent lights of the starry hosts of heaven.

The Newcomes 2006

Farther on were other tufts of moss in islands divided by the shed leaves — variety upon variety, dark green and pale green; moss-like little fir-trees, like plush, like malachite stars, like nothing on earth except moss.

The Woodlanders 2006