Chestnuts Sentence Examples

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  • When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.

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  • Wines of fair quality are grown in the valley of the Sioule; walnuts, chestnuts, plums, apples and pears are principal fruits.

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  • A considerable quantity of timber is grown on the high lands, and the rich valley pastures support large herds of cattle, while the abundance of oaks and chestnuts favours the rearing of swine.

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  • Silkworm-rearing and the cultivation of peaches, chestnuts and other fruits are also carried on.

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  • Some of the mountains are almost entirely composed of naked calcareous rock, but most of them wereformerly covered to their summits with forests of oaks, chestnuts, or pine trees, now destroyed to provide fuel.

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  • Many of the mountains are clothed with forests of oak, chestnuts, beeches and other trees, and contain iron, copper, lead and marble.

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  • In the temperate uplands of the interior, as about Luang Prabang, Himalayan and Japanese species occur - oaks, pines, chestnuts, peach and great apple trees, raspberries, honeysuckle, vines, saxifrages, Cichoraceae, anemones and Violaceae; there are many valuable timber trees - teak, sappan, eagle-wood, wood-oil (Hopea), and other Dlpterocarpaceae, Cedrelaceae, Pterocarpaceae, Xylia, ironwood and other dye-woods and resinous trees, these last forming in many districts a large proportion of the more open forests, with an undergrowth of bamboo.

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  • Maize, millet, rye, flax, liquorice and fruits of all sorts - especially nuts, almonds, oranges, figs, walnuts and chestnuts - are produced.

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  • Its exports include timber, citrons, skins, chestnuts and gallic acid.

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  • Here they are chiefly composed of oaks and chestnuts.

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  • Fruits abound, as apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, chestnuts and almonds; mulberries are also cultivated.

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  • The native fruits, except walnuts and chestnuts, are worthless.

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  • Olives, chestnuts and grapes are grown, and silk-worms are kept.

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  • There is trade in grain, truffles, chestnuts, brandy and in the salmon of the Dordogne.

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  • In Alemtejo chestnuts and figs are important articles of diet.

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  • The fruit is ripe in or shortly before the first week in October, when it falls to the ground, and the three-valved thorny capsule divides, disclosing the brown and at first beautifully glossy seeds, the so-called nuts, having a resemblance to sweet chestnuts, and commonly three or else two in number.

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  • Chestnuts (the fruit of the tree) are extensively imported into Great Britain, and are eaten roasted or boiled, and mashed or otherwise as a vegetable.

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  • The trees are very abundant in the south of Europe, and chestnuts bulk largely in the food resources of the poor in Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

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  • Ash, oaks, black and sweet gums, chestnuts, hickories, hard maple, beech, walnut and short-leaf pine are noteworthy among the trees of the Carolinian area; the tupelo and bald cypress of the embayment region, and long-leaf and loblolly pines, pecans and live oaks of the uplands, among those characteristic of the Austro-riparian.

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  • It has been suggested that the above-mentioned callosities or " chestnuts " on the limbs of horses are vestigial scent-glands; and it is noteworthy that scrapings or shavings from their surface have a powerful attraction for other horses, and are also used by poachers and burglars to keep dogs silent.

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  • Of the fruits grown, chestnuts, cider-apples, and pears are most important.

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  • Evergreen oaks, chestnuts and conifers are the prevailing trees.

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  • Woodpecker was the sire of Buzzard (1787), who in his turn became the father of three celebrated sons, Castrel (1801), Selim (1802), and Rubens (1803), all three chestnuts, and all out of an Alexander mare (1790), who thereby became famous.

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  • Eclipse was a chestnut; Castrel, Selim and Rubens were chestnuts; so also were Glencoe and Pantaloon, of whom the latter had black spots on his hind quarters like Eclipse; and also Stockwell and Doncaster.

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  • The most abundant species of this forest were the oaks and chestnuts, of which a dozen have been collected; laurels, Viburnum, ivy, several Aralias, Dewalquea, a Thuja and several Ferns may be added.

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  • Work was hampered by the basic fact that the horse chestnuts were poor quality material from which to produce acetone.

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  • Some of the best charcuterie comes from this area, where wild pigs have gorged themselves on the fallen chestnuts.

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  • They have a creamy flesh with a sweet flavor that is similar to squash or roasted chestnuts.

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  • Sierra Rica, based near ancient, organic chestnut woods in southern Spain, sells cooked and peeled chestnuts in jars.

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  • Russia was not going to ` pull the chestnuts out of the fire ' for anyone.

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  • Nobody really knew why they were collecting horse chestnuts.

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  • Archaeoastronomy, shamanic straight paths, and other ' hot chestnuts ' of EM reveal further myth-making in progress.

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  • In the winter, cheerful street vendors roast chestnuts over coal braziers.

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  • Thai cuisine often features fresh salad leaves, together with water chestnuts, herbs and nuts combined with spicy poultry or fish.

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  • How did horse chestnuts help the war effort during the First World War?

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  • Fortunately Johnny Pate's arrangements are so scintillating and Curtis ' unique soaring falsetto so alluring that even the old chestnuts sound great.

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  • Looking down I saw a stately carriage and pair, the brilliant lamps gleaming on the glossy haunches of the noble chestnuts.

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  • Collection was restricted by transport difficulties and letters in The Times tell of piles of rotting horse chestnuts at railroad stations.

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  • Leaves on the horse chestnuts have opened out, as have some more sycamores.

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  • Keeping the green sauce in the wok, add the water chestnuts, sweetcorn and bamboo shoots and simmer for 5 minutes.

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  • Ideas can include seasonal ingredients like chestnuts or a classic entrée like osso buco.

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  • You can either use pre-cooked chestnuts from a jar or use fresh chestnuts.

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  • If you opt to use the fresh chestnuts, they need to be boiled then roasted.

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  • Peel the chestnuts and then roast them in a 350-degree oven for 15 minutes.

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  • Add the chestnuts and continue to cook for 5 minutes.

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  • Boil 1 quart of chestnuts, shell, and peel them.

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  • Golden Chestnut (Castanopsis Chrysophylla) - A beautiful evergreen tree of the Pacific Coast of N.America, coming between the Oaks and the Chestnuts.

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  • It blooms in September and ripens its fruits, like tiny sweet Chestnuts, in the succeeding autumn.

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  • A child with a latex allergy may also have allergies to kiwi fruit, passion fruit, papayas, bananas, avocados, figs, peaches, nectarines, plums, tomatoes, celery, and chestnuts.

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  • There are no end of shops, chestnuts and performances to warm and delight - especially the world-famous Nutcracker ballet at Lincoln Center.

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  • When you stroll down Fifth Avenue during the Christmas season, with the windows and the lights and the chestnuts and the happy children, you can truly feel part of Christmas present and past when you don a vintage costume.

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  • However, subtle chestnuts and olive greens combined with creative styles somehow carry these modern designs into a sassy mature light.

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  • The higher regions produce cork trees, oaks, pines, chestnuts, &c., but the forests have been largely destroyed by speculators, who burned the trees for charcoal and potash, purchasing them on a large scale from the state.

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  • It was enclosed by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and laid out by Charles II., and contains a fine avenue of Spanish chestnuts planted in his time.

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  • High districts covered with oaks and chestnuts succeed to this almost tropical vegetation; a little higher up and we reach the elevated regions of the Pollino and the Sila, covered with firs and pines, and affording rich pastures even in the midst of summer, when heavy dews and light frosts succeed each other in July and August, and snow begins to appear at the end of September or early in October.

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  • Chestnuts and walnuts Hamburg appear on the terraces of the Imperial Territory Alsace-Lorraine .

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