Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees.
He hovered on the front and flank of the advancing army, galling them severely until three next morning, when the British encamped on Chestnut Hill, in front of the American right, and distant from it about three miles.
Give back the horse, and to-morrow she was to ride the perfect chestnut at the meet.
She hated the big room she had lain sick in, with its ornate bed, its bare, polished boards; the fire of chestnut wood.
He drove back to his house; he piled fragrantchestnut wood upon the fire; he applied himself thoughtfully to a dish of golden risotto.
We know the rock ledges, the big dry woods of oak and chestnut and maple and beech.
Ten minutes' walking brought us past the big chestnut and out to a little clearing.
There is not much else to be seen now; the green is as wide and sunny, the geese and ponies graze as contentedly, and the pond is as bright under the chestnut trees and limes.
Warlingham stands round a pretty green, and has a pleasant inn; the church, which once lay among fields, is at the end of a chestnut avenue which belongs to the future.
They would take any countryman back to the days of chestnut blossom and the scent of Surrey may; but that indolent melody, in July sunshine, belongs to London.
Ow often must I tell you that a chestnut 'orse is the colour of lager beer, a brown 'orse the colour of draught ale, and a black 'orse the colour of stout.
Probably the most outstanding instance of successful chestnut orcharding now existing in the entire country is a planting of Mr. E.
As was to have been expected, the blight has wrought its greatest destruction in places of densest representation of the chestnut species.
The native range of the American sweet chestnut centers largely in the Appalachian region from Portland, Maine, south to Atlanta, Georgia.
These are the native chestnut from the eastern states and that from Japan.
It was in one of the very attractive little orchards of chestnut trees in the north of Shansi and northeast of Tientsin.
It is in the outlying districts of scant frequency that the danger of infection from chestnut trees from the forest is least to planted trees, and likewise, there it is that combative measures should be most successful.
The chestnut bark disease has cost the country untold millions of dollars, and no wonder the public pauses for a second thought before investing in eastern-grown chestnut trees.
One of the largest chestnut trees that I saw measured eight feet and would have been valuable for timber purposes.
Chestnut trees from China are generally light producers; but out of the total of several hundred at Bell, several this year have borne good crops.
Van Fleet's ambition was to get a blight-resistant chestnut the size of the Japan chestnut with the delicious flavor of the chinkapin.
Well outside the native range of the chestnut species, there are a number of districts in the United States within which it should be possible to build up a new chestnut-orchard industry.
I will relate it to you; it will prove to you that with a bald head one may be as much a child as with your fine chestnut curls.
And what a picture they made in that leaf-strewn clearing, all red and brown and gold with the jewels of the dying year, the chestnut stretching its arms out over the two forms as if in a blessing!
When I reached him he was already at the chestnut tree, kneeling, torch in hand, closely searching the ground.
I myself saw her then in the Sisters' close, sitting at the foot of a large chestnut tree," said I slowly, for I could not help thinking of that evil face I now felt certain I had really seen peering at our sister from behind the thicket.
For the rafters we took chestnut saplings, hewn flat on the top, and these were usually covered with shingles of flat oak, although it sometimes occurred that a temporary thatch or sod roof had to serve until the oak shingles were prepared.
As they rushed on the breastworks a gray figure on a chestnut horse rode diagonally across the front of the moving column at the enemy's gun.
She had just taken her sheep out, and she had hardly reached the end of the avenue of chestnut trees when we heard her shouting.
When their cart had disappeared down the avenue of chestnut trees, Pauline told Eugène what M.
He walked in front of me on the narrow path, and when he left me just before we came to the avenue of chestnut trees I knew that I loved him even more than Sister Marie-Aimée.
There the roofs were of the same colour as the chestnut trees, and the river went on on the other side of them.
She had been leaning against the chestnut tree, and she went up to Eugène, who was looking at the wolf.
I was afraid that you would not find the avenue of chestnut trees, and I hung up a lantern on each side.
When he had seen to all the animals the cowherd made me sit down next to him in the chestnut avenue.
There were three cows which used to graze on some land in the middle of which was a great big chestnut tree.
Pauline covered him with her shawl, made the sign of the cross towards the house, took up the reins, and the cart went slowly off under the chestnut trees.
She looked black and white now, and I understood that I had made a mistake because of the shadow of the chestnut tree.
That day I saw the two red cows, and just under the chestnut tree I saw a big black cow.
The houses are like English houses: the Common is like Constitution Hill; Beacon Street is like a bit of Park Lane; and Summer Street, now that the chestnut trees are in bloom, is perfectly beautiful.
We took the road to the Schuylkill at once, through Arch Street, which is a fine, broad, long street, running parallel with Chestnut Street.
We reached Philadelphia at half-past four, and had again to canter down Chestnut Street just as the folks were all coming from church, which caused no little staring, and turning of heads.
We passed one or two pretty buildings in pure white marble, and the Bank in Chestnut Street, which is a beautiful little copy of the Parthenon.
A gentle breeze was stirring the trees round where we sat; and through the thick branches of a chestnut tree, as they waved to and fro, the silver disk of the full moon looked placidly down upon us.
A tea made of chestnut leaves is said to be good, and is often used as a home remedy.
Steep chestnut leaves, strain, add sugar according to amount of juice and boil down to a syrup; give plenty of this.
A tea made of chestnut leaves taken freely instead of water.
The leaves of the chestnut that we eat, not the horse-chestnut.
Make an infusion of dry chestnut leaves, not too strong, season with cream and sugar, if desired.
My aides, Colonel Chestnut and Captain Lee, are authorized to make such demand of you.
Colonel Chestnut and Captain Lee will, for a reasonable time, await your answer.
General Robertson arrived with reinforcements from Charleston, and by the next morning General Chestnut was up with 350 South Carolina reserves, and General Baker with a North Carolina brigade.
The house stands on a ridge, among chestnut trees that were turned already golden and brown, high against the high wall of the mountains.
An officer was killed by a shell on the terrace, under the big chestnut tree.
They hanged him on the terrace from the branch of the big chestnut tree and left him there.
There was a great chestnut tree on either side of the door, and the ground about the door was strewn with brown burrs and golden leaves.
Two men were killed in the fall of the east wing roofs, and the chestnut tree of the terrace, that had shaded generations of pleasant dreaming, was struck down under falling of tiles and stone.
This is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees.
Under a spreading chestnut tree The villagesmithy stands.
Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.
Here is a chestnut tree; but look not overhead for its sheltering branches.
My tears, like white jade chop-sticks, fall in a single piece before the water-chestnut mirror.
The water-chestnut pickers are singing, a simple song unaccompanied by instruments--but joy is unbearable.
There was a great horse chestnut tree beside the house, towering above the gable, covered with blossoms.
It is a most romantic region, and the praises of its mountain walls and chestnut woods have been sung by all sojourners there, ever since Dante set the fashion.
The ascent to the top of the Col Sevi, 1600 feet high, was long and steep, with grand views, lying through many a wild and rugged hill varied by chestnut groves, through which gleamed the everlasting snow barriers on every side.
A pure cone of glistening snow was rising from a belt of pines and chestnut woods from the valley in which stood the inn, and blocking up the little window with a dazzling vicinity of beauty.
He was not very tall, and pale, with thick chestnut hair, irregular features, and a wide, full mouth.
This extraordinary spoliation left in the sunlight the same face, but a much younger head--a head with close chestnut curls and a short chestnut beard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chestnut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
