It is rather a delicate and finger-scorching process to balance chestnutson the bars, and as a matter of fact Prissie's tumbled into the fire, and could not be rescued.
Hot chestnuts would be a distinct possibility, and a little coaxing at head-quarters would doubtless result in Jones the gardener bringing a bag full for them from Glazebrook.
The members of the Mafia, well stocked therefore with the apples and chestnuts necessary for divination, remained in their schoolroom after evening preparation, so as to have a gay time all to themselves.
Now it was all very well to sit in the sanctuary of their schoolroom trying such mild magic as divination through chestnuts and apple skins.
Not only that the sparrows noisily criticized his work, and the chestnuts scornfully whisked their tails under his nose, but the harrows also objected, and resisted at every little stone or clod of earth.
How do you suppose they could keep the little squirrels from eating the chestnuts green, then?
You see, the chestnutsare not really ripe until the burrs are broken open by the frost.
She suggested a drive into the country for this late September Saturday, chestnuts being their main object, there having been a sharp frost.
The beech-trees were very scarce, and thechestnuts were gone--the blight had taken them all.
Egg-nog and roasted Italian chestnuts completed Estelle's entertainment save for the holiday dinner of roast beef and plum pudding to follow on the morrow.
Fresh figs and dates abounded, alternating with baskets of Italian chestnuts and oranges, forty for a shilling.
See how the big chestnuts fit in and point out the yellow road.
Nevertheless, Horse Chestnutsmay be used for fattening cattle, particularly sheep, the nuts being cut up, and mixed with oats, or beans.
A good way to cook Chestnuts is to boil them for twenty minutes, and then place them for five minutes more in a Dutch oven.
To be harvested the Chestnuts are spread on a frame of lattice-work overhead, and a fire is kept burning underneath.
Their bitterness can be removed by first washing the Chestnuts in lime water.
Allow all to cook gently until the syrup browns, add vanilla and remove the chestnuts from the fire; when sufficiently cool, turn the whole into a glass dish.
Boil the chestnuts in plenty of water until tender, but not too soft, that they may not break in peeling.
Boil the chestnutsand vegetables gently until quite tender, which will take 1-1/2 hours.
A group of red deer lay in the shadow of a line of chestnuts which swept a slope, at whose base the lake gleamed.
His gaze travelled across it to the church nestling at the foot of a gorge full of chestnuts and evergreen oaks.
When we again passed over this ground in June, the place was a soft fairyland of beauty, the bright green chestnuts bending lovingly over the great stones, and throwing dappled light and shade over the uneven turf.
Very thankful were we at last to sit down on some large boulders beside the rushing waters, where a grove of thickly growing chestnuts threw a grateful shade around.
Chestnuts are even wider, though sometimes not so tall.
Then off the two would skip through the woods to gather greens or berries, chestnuts or wild turkey eggs, whatever the season might bring.
At such times, I have liked to sit down on one of the empty benches in the Hof Garden, where the leaves already half cover the ground, and the dropping horse-chestnuts keep up a pattering on them.
The young lady staying with us was roasting chestnutsin the ashes, and the frequent explosions required considerable attention.
We mounted slowly through splendid forests, specially of fine chestnuts and hemlocks.
Polly is picking up chestnuts on the sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles them about her head and upon the glass roof of her winter-garden.
But there is nothing gross in the animated crackling of sticks of wood blazing on the earth, not even if chestnuts are roasting in the ashes.
As we pass around the house, I discover a boy in the ravine filling a bag with chestnuts and hickorynuts.
I hope you found the horse-chestnuts which I put in the bottom of the carriage for you.
Illustration: "I hope you found the horse-chestnuts which I put in the carriage for you.
You don't know the monkey," said Dalberg to Vitrolles; "he would not risk burning the tip of his paw even if all the chestnutswere for himself.
Boil and peel one quart of large chestnuts and mash with a fork.
The chestnuts need not be peeled or pricked, but merely well covered with cold water and brought to the boil, after which they should boil for a good half hour.
Well grease a small pie-dish, put in thechestnuts and tomatoes in alternate layers.
First put on the chestnuts (without shelling or pricking) in cold water, and boil for an hour.
There were on that knoll three snowy, bridal birches, the rough trunks of horse-chestnuts and a few solemn pines.
Under the horse chestnuts Max Longman was telling Colonel Stratton how the day before Sam Ellis had at last leased the hotel to a Chicago man.
He walked straight on into the church but Nanny stayed outside and held open court under the big horse chestnutsin front of the church door.
The lengthening shadows of the chestnutsstretched over the greensward slopes, and were flung far out on the river which swept by in its silent majesty, far-gleaming in the last rays of the sinking sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chestnuts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
