Cherrie set out to spruce up Joe's appearance and to surround him with a new group of friends.
Baeospora myosura is similar in size and appearance to C. tuberosa, but grows on spruce and Douglas-fir cones.
Ammons was the anti-Kerouac: a shy, puttering man of ordinary routines, square verging on dorky in appearance, devoted to his back-yard jays and spruces.
The former board president Yaz Hernandez also made comments about her appearance, Ms. Aguilar said, once telling her to shape her eyebrows and spruce up her wardrobe.
ABOUT a year ago, town leaders in Orange decided to spruce up the Boston Post Road to give its business corridor a facelift and more upscale appearance.
In eastern Canada in in the early 1940s the European spruce sawfly (Gilpinia), which had caused immense damage, was completely controlled by the spontaneous appearance of a viral disease, perhaps unknowingly introduced from Europe.
Although Finns consider Santa Claus to have his permanent home in Korvatunturi, in northern Finland, the spruce Christmas tree is a relative newcomer to the country, having made its first appearance in the 1820s.
Although the area has revived, thanks to the appearance of institutions like the jazz club Yoshi's and the spruced-up Sundance Kabuki cinemas, the black population has dwindled, owing to steep rises in the cost of goods and housing.
WHILE there are many ways to enhance the appearance of a house -- installing a new front door, adding shutters, painting the window frames, sprucing up the landscaping -- few improvements provide the metamorphosis that results from installing new siding.
