Putty said he wood pay us but when we asked him for our pay he said we cood have all the horse chesnuts we wanted.
O, chesnuts are shady, and golden are sheaves, And sweet is the exquisite music of leaves!
THE chesnuts droop low by the river, And shady are Ankerwycke trees; The dragon-flies flash and they quiver To somnolent humming of bees!
We've allers been free to have the chesnuts and the wannuts and the grapes and the huckleberries and the strawberries, ef we could git 'em, and ketch fish when and where we was a mind to.
Use a raised crust or dish, at pleasure, lay in the meat with roasted chesnuts peeled and quartered, dates sliced, and the marrow from two beef bones.
Then have boildchesnuts peeled and pistaches, and set them by also.
Next boil'd chesnuts and pistaches, and set them by.
The beeches and chesnuts here grow to an immense size, and look so old in their winter guise that one might almost believe they had spread the shade over the paladins of Charlemagne.
Oaks, Magnolias and Chesnutsoccur not uncommonly, the Magnolias being of these in this range the most characteristic of elevation.
The descent occasioned a loss of pines, oaks and chesnuts continuing, Orthopogon, Pederia triphyllum.
Oaks and chesnuts continued, but pines ceased about half way between Onkreem and Onswye.
Oaks and chesnuts still continuing to be the usual trees.
There were pines and cedars on the hills, and large oaks and chesnuts in the valleys.
Showers of leaves blew full in our faces as we rode towards the convent, placed at an extremity of the vale and sheltered by firs and chesnuts towering one above another.
Now I found myself at liberty, and pursued a narrow path overhung by rock, with bushy chesnuts starting from the crevices.
My shoes were loaded with sand: this my hostess perceived, and immediately kindling a fire in an inner part of the hovel, brought out some warm water to refresh my feet, and set some milk and chesnuts before me.
Cork has the power of keeping off the cramp, and so have Horse-chesnuts if carried in the pocket.
The Chesnuts of Asia Minor supplied Xenophon's whole army with food in their retreat along the borders of the Euxine.
Chesnuts are included in the list of funereal trees.
In the next line, he hints that the damsels of his day were too greedy to be satisfied with chesnuts only.
Shoemakers and tinkers carry on their business along the sunny side, while the venders of oranges and roasted chesnuts form a circle around the Egyptian obelisk and fountain.
The sky shone like a polished gem, and the glossy leaves of the chesnuts gleamed in the morning sun.
The glossy foliage of the chesnuts was made still brighter by the warm light, and the old olives softened down into a silvery gray, whose contrast gave the landscape a character of the mellowest beauty.
Emily's spirits revived, when she heard, that the journey was so nearly concluded, and saw the wood of chesnuts in an open part of the vale, on the margin of the stream.
The chesnut-trees overhung one corner of the playground, within the paling: and in that corner Hugh found several chesnutswhich had burst their sheaths, and lay among the first fallen leaves.
And so to snatch chesnuts poor Raton agreed, And at once set to work on the dangerous deed.
The roots of five years old oaks and chesnuts were generally eaten through just below the surface of the ground, or wherever their runs proceeded.
It may also be observed that the present Chesnuts Enclosure is probably the site of the chesnut groves referred to in the above grants.
Mr. Machen's Notes inform us that in the autumn of 1846 "there was the most abundant crop of Spanish chesnuts we have ever had, and they ripen well, but the people injure the trees to get them.
The common chesnuts succeed best upon high declivities, and their fruit is like the chesnuts that grow in our woods.
They are only to be found in Upper Louisiana, where the woods are much thinner than in Lower Louisiana, and the chesnuts which the stag greatly loves are very common.
When the chesnuts can be easily stripped of this pellicle by the pressure of the fingers, take the jar from the fire; shake them well on all sides.
By this double operation the chesnuts acquire a degree of cooking and desiccation, by which they can be preserved a very long time, provided they are kept in a dry place.
To eat chesnuts green all the year, boil them in water for fifteen or twenty minutes; put them afterwards in a common oven, one hour after the bread has been taken out.
The compound in the jug being tasted and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chesnuts on the fire.
All this time the chesnuts and the jug went round and round; and bye and bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim; who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.
These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chesnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily.
The ambassador of Bagdad came with us sometimes in the evening, to eatchesnuts and drink cider at Madame Duranton's.
Madame Duranton, at whose house two or three friends and I went sometimes to pass the evening, and who gave us sometimes cider and chesnuts in her little back shop.
Myself will search our planted grounds at home, For downy peaches and the glossy plum; And thrash the chesnuts in the neighbouring grove, Such as my Amaryllis used to love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chesnuts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
