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Examples
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And next to him, but a proportionately made man, ruddy and of a fair countenance, was Jock Coan -- that they called the Fir Cone.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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TerraMai regularly slavages Redwood and Douglas Fir from the Bay Area.
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First Lady Laura Bush will receive the 20-foot Frasier Fir, which is being trucked in from Ash County, North Carolina.
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There it is, Laura Bush will receive the 20-foot Frazier Fir, which is being trucked in from Ash County, North Carolina.
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Chase, and which was called Fir-tree Grove, not because the firs were many, but because they were few.
Adam Bede 2004
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Towards West-Northwest, it is nations called Fir-trees; numerous; all their traffic is with the English.
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And the Gail Fir, which is the other reference point, it's on the eastern part of our acreage.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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And the Gail Fir, which is the other reference point, it's on the eastern part of our acreage.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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And the Gail Fir, which is the other reference point, it's on the eastern part of our acreage.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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We also find "Fyre-tree," which is a true English word meaning the "fire-tree;" but I believe that "Fir" was originally confined to the timber, from its large use for torches, and was not till later years applied to the living tree.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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