What is "chestnuts"

Usage examples of "chestnuts".

Bewildered, Aldora regarded the thousands of horseswhites, grays, bays, chestnuts, sorrels, roans, claybanks and blacks with occasional pintos, piebalds and that flaxen-maned and tailed variety of golden-chestnut known as palomino.

We roasted the chestnuts he sent Dicky out for, and he told us stories till it was nearly seven.

The robber ate some of the chestnuts - and we sat and wondered when Father would come home, and what he would say to us for our intrepid conduct.

The next three boxes all contained chestnuts, all unremarkable to my eyes.

Arab brought a glass of raid, then knelt down and put a row of chestnuts on the glowing cinders hi the brazier.

Without a word the Arab brought a glass of raid, then knelt down and put a row of chestnuts on the glowing cinders hi the brazier.

CHAPTER VII THE WORK IN PROGRESS On the sheltered side of Eastbourne, just at the springing of the downs as you climb towards Beachy Head, is a spacious and heavy-looking stone house, with pillared porch, oriel windows on the ground floor of the front, and a square turret rising above the fine row of chestnuts which flanks the road.

He had imagined the girl as treated with every indulgence at The Chestnuts, but the tone of this letter made him fear lest Mrs.

Mapper at The Chestnuts, she went once more to Bank Street and met her friend Dr.

Mapper that he had called at The Chestnuts, but nothing was seen of him.

Ormonde provided her with lodgings at the side of Eastbourne farthest from The Chestnuts, in the house of a decent woman who did sewing for the Home.

Though troubled by the consciousness that she ought not to have come so far in this direction, and that perhaps her strength would be overtaxed before she could reach home again, she went still on and on, until, reaching the point where another road joined that by which she had come, she found The Chestnuts just before her.

By this time it was dark, and the tall chestnuts beyond the house rustled in a cool breeze from the sea.

The Chestnuts, was a great consideration to a man in his perpetual state of struggle to make ends meet.