Pronunciation of the English word fir.
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1. | Every family decorates a fir tree for the new year. | |
2. | There was once a bundle of matches, who were all extremely proud of their high descent, for their genealogical tree, that is to say, the tall fir-tree, from which each of them was a splinter, had been a tree of great antiquity, and distinguished by his height from all the other trees of the forest. | |
3. | We are decorating the fir tree. | |
4. | Fir trees are often used as Christmas trees. | |
5. | Out in the forest stood a pretty little Fir Tree. | |
6. | The little Fir Tree wished ardently to become greater. | |
7. | "Oh, if I were only as great a tree as the others!" sighed the little Fir. | |
8. | When it was winter, and the snow lay all around, white and sparkling, a hare would often come jumping along, and spring right over the little Fir Tree. Oh! this made him so angry. | |
9. | In the autumn woodcutters always came and felled a few of the largest trees; that was done this year too, and the little Fir Tree, that was now quite well grown, shuddered with fear, for the great stately trees fell to the ground with a crash, and their branches were cut off. | |
10. | The ancient Teutons celebrated the season by decking a fir tree, for they thought of the sun, riding higher and higher in the heavens, as the spreading and blossoming of a great tree. |