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  • The antique carved pine-wood interior contrasts sharply with the minimalist design furniture and lighting. www.guardaval-scuol.ch; rooms from € 119 per person per night for a double .

    Switzerland's Rugged Alpine Gem Julia Hancock 2010

  • Yes, there were coffins, pine-wood coffins stacked up to the sky.

    The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

  • The hotel, with its 19 carved pine-wood rooms, also offers regular rides to the ski runs. www.schlosshoteltarasp.ch ; rooms from € 113 per person per night for a double

    Switzerland's Rugged Alpine Gem Julia Hancock 2010

  • The room looks dark now that the great sun under the ceiling is extinguished; the two lamps that are now alight are good enough, but one seems, nevertheless, to have made a retrograde step towards the days of pine-wood torches.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • The forest there is quite open, more like a pine-wood than a forest, rather like the landscape where Jackson shot the "Breaking of the Fellowship" scenes in LOTR.

    This Week intertext 2006

  • His first impression was that the house was smaller than he had thought — very much smaller; his second was to perceive that all the vegetation between the house and the pine-wood had become extremely large.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • Cossar led the way to the edge of the pine-wood and halted.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • That lissome nymph — with her white skin and red-gold hair, her blue eyes full of insolence, her red lips full of joy, her white neck fragrant as a pine-wood in sunshine — the vision was abiding.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • A scent of pine-wood from a tentlike pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; the slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak panelling which stood propped against the wall.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • They went up a little path of white sand through the pine-wood and halted presently within sight of the wasp-holes.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

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