Sentence examples for fir from inspiring English sources

The fireballs, which are made from a mix of things like coal, old jumpers and fir cones, all soaked in paraffin, are ignited just before midnight and the hair-singeing event lasts around 20 minutes.

OVERSIZED wreaths, plastic fir trees, gold baubles and the canned strains of Bing Crosby.

China has a rich mix of habitats, from upland steppe and desert, to mountain fir and spruce forests, lowland tropical rainforest, and wetlands.

Those who find sawing a fir too laborious and choosing one from a tree seller too time-consuming can turn to technology.

With approval from the Indian government, IA had in July 1984 paid Boeing a deposit for 12 Boeing 757s, large narrow-bodied aircraft.Several civil servants and IA officials were named in the FIR.

The Douglas fir, which produces more seeds than the Ponderosa pine but is much less tolerant of drought or fire, did especially well.In 1910, a series of enormous fires ravaged Montana and Idaho.

The second-biggest forest area, about a third of the total, is in the boreal, or taiga, biome: a belt of spruce, birch, fir and aspen that encircles the far northern hemisphere, mostly in Russia, Scandinavia, Finland, Canada and a small part of America.

The same method should be simple to extend to other bootlegged trees, such as the Douglas fir and white spruce.

The business provides jobs for 20 of the ejido's 138 members, hauling lumber, turning lathes and planting trees, and each member gets an annual profit share of around 15,000 pesos ($1,150).Over 75% of Mexico's forests, which range from temperate spruce and fir to tropical rainforest, are controlled by local communities, either ejidos or indigenous groups.

The spruce-fir association found in extensive parts of the Adirondacks and the largely oak-dominated forests in southeastern New York are the major exceptions to the northern hardwood forests.

The answer is not a happy one, for Emerson finds that we occupy a place of dislocation and obscurity, where "sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree" (CW3: 27).