Use "spruce" in a sentence

1. spruce to the northwest of Shaleborough

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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15. From the top of an old spruce

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

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

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

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19. The Spruce No

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

21. Finding a stately spruce, Selma and

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

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

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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

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

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26. thick with pine and spruce

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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36. Spruce up the outside to lure potential buyers inside

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

51. Because spruce is

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52. relationship to spruce, there are features that distinguish the

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53. dudes off with some sixty five million dollars to shut them up and be happy, and now with billions able to have those riding his coattails spruce up his intellectual property theft image, all for giving to the people a modern rendition of an ancient idea

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54. The maids of honour, Miss Larch Conifer and Miss Spruce Conifer, sisters of the bride, wore very becoming costumes in the same tone, a dainty motifof plume rose being worked into the pleats in a pinstripe and repeated capriciously in the jadegreen toques in the form of heron feathers of paletinted coral

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55. He took pride in using a variety of Northwest woods in his products—sugar pine for keels, ash for the frames, Sitka spruce for the gunnels and the hand-carved seats, Alaska yellow cedar for the washboards

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56. As it crawled through downtown, the float looked something like an enormous green reptile with a sleek cedar spine and eight wavering spruce quills

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57. He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash

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58. One evening, I cannot help remembering, that returning home from him, with a spirit he had raised in a circle his wand had proved too weak to lay, as I turned the corner of a street, I was overtaken by a young sailor, I was then in that spruce, neat, plain dress, which I ever affected and perhaps might have, in my trip, a certain air of restlessness unknown to the composure of cooler thoughts

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59. A stable boy, spruce and smart in his holiday attire, met them with a broom in his hand, and followed them

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60. This annual sacrifice united us; here among the holly and mistletoe and the cut spruce, the parlour game's ritually performed, the brandy-butter and the Carlsbad plums, the village choir in the pitch-pine minstrels' gallery, gold twine and sprigged wrapping- paper, she and I were accepted, whatever ugly rumours had been afloat in tile past year, as man and wife

61. But the woman, with her Kodachrome red hair, was actually beautiful, the way the silver of the lake in the background and the dark green spruce were beautiful

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62. Theirs hung between the two spruce trees in their yard in Chatham

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63. The pine and spruce trees hunched over the water

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64. Acadia remembered it all as if it had been yesterday, but she roused from the memory when she passed several stacks of freshly cut wood before the way bent hard to the right beneath a giant spruce tree

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65. Berg drove up to his father-in-law’s house in his spruce little trap with a pair of sleek roans, exactly like those of a certain prince

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66. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides

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67. Steep spruce needles in hot water to make a tea

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68. Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint's Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white spruce trees, and toadstools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alderberry glows like eyes of imps, the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild holly berries make the beholder forget his home with their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, too fair for mortal taste

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69. While Stella read My Graves, punctuating its tragic paragraphs with chuckles, and Rusty slept the sleep of a just cat who has been out all night curled up on a Jane Andrews tale of a beautiful maiden of fifteen who went to nurse in a leper colony—of course dying of the loathsome disease finally—Anne glanced over the other manuscripts and recalled the old days at Avonlea school when the members of the Story Club, sitting under the spruce trees or down among the ferns by the brook, had written them

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70. But she's certainly uncommon spruce

71. The lass is hard-working and spruce, and keeps everything round herself

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72. Everything was solemn, joyous and beautiful; the priest in his bright, silver chasuble, dotted with gilt crosses, the deacon, the chanters in holiday surplice of gold and silver, the spruce volunteer singers with oiled hair, the joyous melodies of holiday songs, the ceaseless blessing of the throng by the priests with flower-bedecked tern candles with the constantly repeated exclamations: "Christ has risen! Christ has risen!" Everything was beautiful, but more beautiful than all was Katiousha, in her white dress, blue belt and red bow in her hair, and her eyes radiant with delight

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73. In a smart cedar rowboat, such as they have for hire at the summer hotel, an athletic youth wielded a pair of long, spruce oars

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