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  • Even now my memory ranges, with lively precision, over the home, the garden, the heathery moorland, the firwoods, the neighbouring houses of the scene where I lived.

    Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • The carpet of snow grew more and more thick upon field and hill, and where the dwarf firwoods grew so close that it could not pass between their branches, it draped them, fold above fold, until one only saw the green here and there standing out from the white garment.

    The Mermaid A Love Tale Lily Dougall 1890

  • High above we obtain a glimpse of some ancient village, its scrambling roofs shining amid orchard-trees and firwoods, or an isolated chalet of goatherd or shepherd breaks some solitude.

    The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • Next came a cherry country, thick with orchards full of scarlet fruit – then a romantic ravine called the Val Molina – then the scattered village of Frassene, with its little church in the midst of a mountain prairie, surrounded by firwoods.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Here dark firwoods slope in shade down to the valley below; and higher firwoods climb the mountain-side above; while, between both, a belt of green corn-fields, lighted here and there by fiery sparks of scarlet poppies, ripples in the breeze and the sunshine.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Skirting thus the base of the hill on which Rocca is built, we cross a higher bridge and plunge at once into the shade of the firwoods at the northward base of Monte Pezza.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Indeed there was one corner of the road, whence he could see the church-spire wedged into a crevice of the valley between sloping firwoods, with a triangular snatch of plain by way of background, which he greatly affected as a place to sit and moralise in before returning homewards; and the peasants got so much into the habit of finding him there in the twilight that they gave it the name of 'Will o' the Mill's

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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