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  • Albert and I have just pulled up to a pub where Colin Meads, aka pinetree, is crunching stories.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Someone cut a silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock out of one of those lemon-scented pinetree car freshener thingies.

    Regretsy – I’ll Have To Take Your Word For It 2010

  • ‘Well,’ said Father Brown slowly, ‘I don’t exactly mean that postmen will carry letters in the form of logs, or that you will ever drop a line to a friend by putting a postage stamp on a pinetree.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • ‘Well,’ said Father Brown slowly, ‘I don’t exactly mean that postmen will carry letters in the form of logs, or that you will ever drop a line to a friend by putting a postage stamp on a pinetree.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Recent fires caused damage estimated at between 10 and 20 million rands in orchards and pinetree plantations at Porterville.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Than yon place owns, and look what cones drop from the pinetree tall.

    Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

  • _Colchos_, when he tooke me away with him, & not so farre off as to curse the mountaine that bare the pinetree, that made the mast, that bare the sailes, that the ship sailed with, which caried her away.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • On the 22nd March (the Vernal Equinox) a pinetree was cut in the woods and brought into the Temple of Cybele.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • ENGLISH thrush within my garden from thy pinetree minaret,

    Thrushes 1918

  • Plotner's bakery, that away, 'way back in the summer-time, was an ice-cream saloon, showed a plaster man in the window, with long, white whiskers, in top boots and a brown coat and peaked hat, all trimmed with fur, and carrying a little pinetree with arsenical foliage.

    Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

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