I counted twenty-one firs on a space considerably less than a quarter of an acre.
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss.
Hundreds of spruce firswith fine tall stems, growing on the hillsides of a valley in the Bavarian Alps, were shown to me as "victims to a kind of rot.
The firs grew thick here, and the shadows that they cast were dark and opaque, encroaching on the pathway, making it a narrow strip of dim light that would lead one into the mysterious and gloomy depths of the wood.
Compared with the view from Bella Vista, our firs looked scanty, our heath-tracts dull, as places having no page of history written on them, our fresh green meadows not more than commonly homely.
A few seconds more and they were passing through the stunted firs up to the Vicarage door.
They were at the gate of the Vicarage now, and the wind rushed so strongly through the firs that she needed to put her lips quite close to his ear to make her words heard.
Meanwhile Alden at home had built him a new habitation, Solid, substantial, of timber rough-hewn from the firs of the forest.
He went through the old firs back of the lot and across the field to a rather shabby house beyond.
It was well along in the afternoon, and outside, in the clear crispness of a Canadian winter, the long blue shadows from the tall firs behind the house were falling over the snow.
She got up and went to the window, looking across the snowy field to her own home, nestled between the grove of firs and the orchard.
As she spoke, Dane noticed that the gloom of the firs had swallowed most of the lawn, and the coincidence struck him as an unfortunate augury.
There had been heavy rain, and all the firs which loomed through thin white mist were dripping.
The whole lay steeped in the sunset, serenely beautiful; but the black shadow of the firs lengthened rapidly across the grass.
The odors of the firs and the stillness of the night were soothing: the sacrifice he had lately made had been a heavy one.
The firs moaned behind them, the dampness chilled them through, and the odor of wet clover was in their nostrils.
Rain had fallen throughout the day, and now heavy clouds drifted overhead, while a chilly breeze shook an eery sighing out of the firs behind him.
Of such spiry or spire-shaped trees, the Firs or Spruces are characteristic and familiar examples.
We saw a few firs at an elevation of 4000 feet, and in some of the upper peaks a few pines are still to be met with.
What pleased the little girl most was a road which looked like a white thread winding away over the heights, and passing out of sight near around hill, with a clump of firs at the top.
Well, these fenestral firs and hollies exist, and they are among the numerous joys of the days that follow Christmas.
What was more portentous, the mossy sod he stood upon was frozen, and there were stretches of snow among the straggling firs upon a higher ridge.
A few minutes later, however, it seemed to him that a shadowy form appeared out of the gloom among the firsand faded into it again.
Bime by the childrens grow up; and the two firs boys, Roldan and Enrique, marrying and living in San Diego.
In the morning firs thing I telling Don Carlos, but he say is nonsense and no will lissen.
There were plenty of groves and forests, and the trees were oaks and beeches, instead of pines and firs which the voyagers had seen in Norway and Sweden.
Going on the hurricane deck again, they found the steamer was among the islands, which were generally low, rocky, and covered with firs and pines.
As it approached the wood-pigeons bolted in panic, with distracted clappings of wings, from the tall firs by the garden wall in which they were wont to sit arranging plans of campaign with regard to the fruit.
Onward they sped, over the perpetual plains, intersected by forests of firs and countless water-courses.
Then the river became broad and still, and mirrored in its transparent depths regal pines, straight as an arrow, with rich yellow and green lichen clinging to their stems, and firs and balsam pines filling up the spaces between them.
Even in the Sierra, where so many noble evergreens challenge admiration, we linger among these colossal firs with fresh love, and extol their beauty again and again, as if no other in the world could henceforth claim our regard.
Both the Silver Firs live 250 years or more when the conditions about them are at all favorable.
Then the spires of the firs in the hollows of the middle region catch the glow, and your camp grove is filled with light.
The Sugar Pine and Silver Firs gave place to the hardier Cedar and Hemlock Spruce.
In size, these two Silver Firsare about equal, the magnifica perhaps a little the taller.
From dreamland; from the rosy hills that hide the dawn; from whispering firs and singing lindens.
I planted them ash trees in the grove, and I mind when those firs was put in, near seventy years ago.
A gigantic ash tree on the far side of the river stood out in bold relief, its lighter leaves being in striking contrast to the dark firs in the background.
Giant firs whose trunks were six feet or more in diameter were everywhere.
When you get down into the Columbia valley or the Fraser country you'll see Douglas firs bigger than you ever thought a tree could grow.
But whether full or empty, it gives a very pleasant walk by its bushy banks, often shaded by firs or birchwood, its winding reaches, its sedgy bays and lagoons, and its heathy environment.
On very hot days, indeed, one might mistake parts of the camp for an Indian cantonment, till the eye catches raggedfirs bordering this dusty maidan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
