1 Soon to the foregoing trees there became added an occasional birch or spruce fir, while in the dense undergrowth around their roots could be seen the blue iris and the yellow wood-tulip.
2 Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down.
3 It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
4 The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
5 Far in the distance in that birch and fir forest to the right of the road, the cross and belfry of the Kolocha Monastery gleamed in the sun.
6 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.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 7 The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 8 Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 9 The Fire-god rages with loose rein over thwarts and oars and hulls of painted fir.
10 She turned down it adventurously, between the thick young firs, which gave way soon to the old oak wood.
11 Connie climbed the fence into the narrow path between the dense, bristling young firs.
12 Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 13 It was to the full as lonely a place as Rainbarrow, though at rather a lower level; and it was more sheltered from wind and weather on account of the few firs to the north.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 14 It was almost as lonely as that of Eustacia's grandfather, but the fact that it stood near a heath was disguised by a belt of firs which almost enclosed the premises.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 15 Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall