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    1. spruce to the northwest of Shaleborough


    2. Rich in pine, birch, spruce and aspen trees, here you can find hare, fox, deer, wolf, lynx, bear and elk


    3. the pound upon all French and Dutch yarn, and of £2:13:4 upon the hundred weight of all spruce or Muscovia yarn


    4. She remained content to spend most of her time indoors, but in her last few weeks, she often came outside with us, spending hours curled underneath a blue spruce behind the house or dozing at the edge of the woods


    5. One would think that would be better than to spruce away


    6. "We Chickadees have a nice warm home here in the spruce trees, with


    7. The airframe was covered in the finest Irish linen, and it was framed up with spruce spars, hickory and ash, braced with piano wire internally and braided aircraft cable externally


    8. The tree belt gave way to a gently undulating wilderness where only scrub spruce could grow, and this was packed so tightly that strangers who ventured a few feet off the highway instantly got lost


    9. And why not? Faith looked at a big, low star hanging over the tall, pointed spruce at the gate of the Methodist Church and had an inspiration


    10. At noon recess Faith encountered Dan in the little spruce plantation behind the school and Dan shouted once more,

    11. The news of the coming battle had leaked out and most of the boys and many of the girls were in the spruce plantation when Dan and Walter sought it after school


    12. He sprang over the fence and rushed down the spruce hill to Rainbow Valley


    13. Nan and Di had been picking spruce gum with Faith and Una in the manse woods and the four of them were now sitting on a fallen pine by the brook, all, it must be admitted, chewing rather vigorously


    14. The Ingleside twins were not allowed to chew spruce gum anywhere but in the seclusion of Rainbow Valley, but Faith and Una were unrestricted by such rules of etiquette and cheerfully chewed it everywhere, at home and abroad, to the very proper horror of the Glen


    15. From the top of an old spruce


    16. There was no snow on the ground in the canyon, and the firs began to give way to spruce and hemlock


    17. The land was heavily wooded, mostly spruce and hemlock with the occasional cedar


    18. The EPA recently proposed to significantly restrict or prohibit mountaintop mining at the Spruce No


    19. The Spruce No


    20. In January, 1911 the EPA revoked the permit for the Spruce No

    21. Finding a stately spruce, Selma and


    22. It was a spruce pine, four feet tall and Becky thought it would be perfect


    23. Let’s spruce up the cover using some of the power of Photo Filter


    24. It was somewhat discouraging that no one disputed her assessment of my abilities, however they all agreed we could do with a spruce up


    25. The old-growth forest was thick with oak, spruce, ash and pine trees


    26. thick with pine and spruce


    27. Safety classes are often offered, for instance, and could be used to spruce up your resume


    28. They stopped to watch birds building nests and when they passed by a stand of spruce they saw two black bears searching for grubs in an old tree


    29. The cargo transport shuttles owed their design in part to the Lockheed C-5, part to the Spruce Goose, part to the American B-36 and part to NASA’s lifting body experiments of the late twentieth century


    30. settled against the trunk of a large spruce, and at Mutt who lay at his feet

    31. amongst the spruce and pines and rocky outcrops they passed


    32. I made a mental note to spruce up my wardrobe


    33. headlights flickering through a mile of thick pine, spruce, oak, and other conifers


    34. Clegg would have been a lucky man if he had been able to ride on the same plateau of bliss Delmage experienced when cradling the three hundred year old instrument to his cheek; when drawing the bow across its strings, when imbibing the mellow tones resonated by the even density of its spruce and willow construction


    35. ‘’Aah, real air! I can smell the pines and spruce trees around


    36. Spruce up the outside to lure potential buyers inside


    37. Tina smiled proudly at the compliment while also admiring the more than seven hectares of temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecosystem, complete with a mix of more than 180 young balsam firs, red maples, American helms, red oaks and red spruce trees and a thick carpet of bushes and long grass, that filled this section of the new deck


    38. Watts used that walk to look around him with contentment at the variety of maples, firs, pines, oaks, helms and spruce trees dispersed around the ecosystem’s vast grounds, with hundreds of bushes, including berry bushes, covering the spaces between the trees


    39. As Paul gazed around the classroom, he noticed it recently been redecorated, and a six-foot spruce pine was now standing in the far right corner of the classroom


    40. “That was a nice tree,” Ellen said, pointing toward the spruce Paul set aside

    41. He then walked over to the spruce and inspected its tag


    42. The clutter of boxes and gift wrap from the children’s party was gone and the great-room was festooned with greenery which befit the holiday season; pine boughs with cones still attached and fresh spruce and fir branches


    43. At the top of a winding hill Adrian pointed out larch, spruce, western red cedar, and an alpine meadow towards the north


    44. For a moment, she stood behind the big spruce in the yard next door, watching the house


    45. “The state tree of Colorado is the blue spruce


    46. Spruce had been there teacher, he’d taught them to read and they had learned from the books


    47. Why do you think walking apes sought out colder lands where it snowed? Because the first sprinklings of snow deposited on green firs and green spruce trees; looked exactly like the sprinklings of white ash deposited on green forests in Africa millions of years ago


    48. To the left, a brown path led downward through a sparse copse of spruce trees whose pines swayed and hissed in the lake winds


    49. sailor, I was then in that spruce, neat, plain dress, which I ever affected


    50. Spruce trees grows in the north, along the edges of the






















    1. I spruced myself up and entered one of the few up-market-looking real estate agents left in town


    2. As though to match his sense of purpose, she spruced up Shanti Sadan even more


    3. There were two tankers parked alongside a service-bay, which were being washed and spruced up


    4. invitation to stay on, Rory spruced himself up and headed for the


    5. He looked extra spruced up today with his snowy white hair


    6. He had spruced the


    7. Karl had also spruced up a few of the small cottages that were situated deep in his own private bit of forest


    8. He had spruced the joint up a little bit, but not enough to draw too much attention


    9. New high-rise buildings had sprung up but the three-storey office building was still there, colonial, spruced up, with a large brass inscription:


    10. I could not but observe that my young minion was as much spruced

    11. I could not but observe that my young minion was as much spruced out as could be expected from one in his condition: a desire of pleasing that could not be indifferent to me, since it proved that I pleased him; which, I assure you, was now a point I was not above having in view


    12. The kids finished their Happy Meals and went outside to play while you spruced up the kitchen with Mr


    1. It crooned in the old spruces around the graveyard and ruffled Faith's splendid curls as she sat on Hezekiah Pollock's tombstone with her arms round Mary Vance and Una


    2. in the tops of spruces, where the chickadees went round and


    3. I was in a forest of tall pines and spruces, their limbless straight trunks culminating in clusters of dense branches high above me


    4. Spruces (Picea) are evergreen trees of cold climates


    5. Hemlocks (Tsuga) are evergreens, resembling spruces, with sprays of foliage, flat needles and short, oblong cones


    6. Spruces occur far into the north and are an important source of nourishment when little other plant life is available


    7. Echo Lodge was the scene of gaieties once more, and the echoes over the river were kept busy mimicking the laughter that rang in the old garden behind the spruces


    8. She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place—a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses


    1. “I thought you may be sprucing up a bit, laddie,” he said as the young man closed the cabin door behind him


    2. Monica could not help but notice the small shining brown boulders lining the edge of the pavement with the gravel strewn between the boulders and flowers sprucing up their sides


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    Synonyms for "spruce"

    spruce slick up smarten up spruce up spiff up titivate tittivate dapper dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish snappy spiffy debonair neat

    "spruce" definitions

    light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork


    any coniferous tree of the genus Picea


    make neat, smart, or trim


    dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion


    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners