The Jews took counsel together, and consented to hide the chests and not to look upon their contents for a year at least.
But he stipulated that they must solemnly bind themselves not to open the chests for a year to come.
Then they filled the chests with sand from the river-banks and locked them securely.
They were perfectly satisfied with this assurance, and so greatly had they trusted the Cid that they had never opened the cheststo examine the nature of the security he had given them.
Pledge thou these chestswith them for what may seem reasonable.
Quoth Ma'aruf, "Canst thou bring me he-mules and chests and fill the chests with the treasure and load them on the mules?
He had his thralls plant large crops of grain and grind flour and make new kegs and chests of wood.
There is no need of that," Thorfinn said, "for this dress is yours and anything else from my chests that you like.
Tools, and chests of food, and tubs of drink, and chests of clothes, and fishing nets were stowed in the bows of both boats.
Thorfinn opened his chests and showed Eric gleaming swords and bracelets and axes and farm tools.
She paraded before him the treasures of her aunt, from the pewter plates and silver-gilt candelabra to camphor-scented brocades long hidden in cedar chests in the ghostly attic.
There were tents and beds, a table, a sheet-iron stove, chests for their stores, and hammocks in which to be fanned by the south wind.
Large store of goodly raiment forth from the chests they laid, That they such noble warriors might meet in fit array; Many a lovely lady bestirr'd herself that day.
The pyx is now in the Mint, and quite recently the treasury chamber, which is at present under the control of the Board of Works, has been cleared out after centuries of neglect, and most of the oldchests have been temporarily removed.
Between the triforium and the roof of this cloister is a vaulted chamber, called the Muniment Room, where some of the Abbey documents are still kept, and the ancient chestscontain archives, which are gradually being sorted and rearranged.
Nearly in the center is a raised dais, eight or ten feet square, under which are stowed all his valuables, packed in chests and Chinese trunks.
Gun-carriages and ammunition-chests vary in form, until we find at last the field artillery, under Napoleon III.
Witness the delicate sculpture of the benches, the high chairs with emblazoned backs, the chests for marriage gifts, the bed which is said to have belonged to Francis I.
The large, cylindrical font is enriched with primitive, arcaded ornamentation; and two very ancient oak muniment chests stand in the adjacent aisle.
The hunters were laid on their backs, then Unicorn traced on their chests with a sharp stick dipped in water in which gunpowder had been dissolved, the figure of the animal serving as totem (protector) to the tribe.
The horses rushed, with a sound like thunder, toward this issue which opened before them, overturning with their chests everything that barred their progress.
The fronts and sides of these chests are not unfrequently embellished more or less richly with carved tracery, panel-work, and other detail in the style prevalent at the period of their construction.
In Haconby Church, Lincolnshire, and in Chevington Church, Suffolk, are very rich chests covered with tracery and detail in the decorated style of the fourteenth century.
In the same room with the daggers and the sword (perhaps 7) were the remains of two wooden chests containing cloth with gold thread; this may have been used in gladiators' costumes.
Two money chests stood on large flat stones in the rear corners of this atrium.
Steam-chests with cast-iron tops; bodies cased with brass, or iron painted.
Oil valves to cylinders placed in cab and connected to steam-chests by pipes running under jacket.
The things that he found when he entered were empty chests and those two pictures hanging on the wall opposite.
I gazed into a hollow in the wall, where many chests were standing.
Mr. Vollmar then called his son and a helper to his assistance, and the chests were soon opened.
He rifled his respectablechests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.
The toilet of a woman constituted a large capital; it was reckoned among the family possessions, and was kept in those enormous chests which threaten to break through the floors of our modern houses.
The Electors of Hanover have in their residences not only their chests filled with gold and precious jewels, but also the most magnificent paintings.
I am God's servant, although not yet ordained; this morning the horse which was carrying my chestscontaining holy things, ran away.
But how is it that you have the chests now if the horse carried them away?
Wishing to prove that he was speaking the truth, he pointed to two chests made of leather, lying under a pine tree.
The wolves devoured the horse in the forest, but the chests remained; I brought them to the road, and then waited for mercy and help.
Because of this disgrace some of them began to strike their chestswith their hands, and others to rap the silver dishes, not knowing what to do.
Many a man would give a purse full of gold for what is in them; but I will give you some of it for nothing, if you take me and the chests with you.
He ordered his chests carried to a room in the inn and there he began to dress.
And the first thing I says when we were clear o' the harbor was: "What's them chests for?
So he brings me around and shows me a little brigantine, he'd chartered, and with three dusky lads for a crew and some grub and two big chests on her quarter-deck we sail out.
Some exercise of this kind should be adopted daily by all young persons, more especially by those whose chests are narrow or deformed, and should be slowly and gradually increased.
But if you could only see the chests that Babette's mother-in-law has!
If I were rich, I would have seven chests of the finest linen.
After that it is a simple enough matter to smooth down the outer surface, bore the cylinders to perfect surfacing, and line the steam-chests with a bushing that can be readily removed once it is worn out.
The plotters hoisted the twochests and staggered up the steps.
Once in the square, he and his men uncrated the wine but left the two heavy chests on the wagon which was hitched to a powerful little six-legged Jeep.
Unopposed, they carted the chests to the huge room where the Master Skin was kept.
They began unloading the chests while Rastignac kept an eye on Lusine.
He and his gang were about to take the two heavy chestsoff the wagon when they were transfixed by a scene before them.
He was rich, and had with him chestsfilled with presents for us of Rapa-nui; and he told us that he came to live a while among us, and look upon the houses of stone and the Faces of the Silent that gaze out upon the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
