How To Use Chestnut In A Sentence
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We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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Barmbrack (currant tea bread) is a celebration of chestnuts and walnut harvests.
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A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side.
Alone
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The venison is good served with roasted parsnips, chestnuts or braised celery.
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Peeples also purchased the second highest-priced yearling of the day when he bid $57,000 for a chestnut colt from the first crop of Just a Cat.
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There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt.
A Year on the Wing
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The parcel was in fact a huge piece of puff pasty filled with a rather creamy concoction of mushrooms and chestnuts.
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The cap is a chestnut brown colour with a cream margin.
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The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns.
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Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks.
Paradise Regained
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Furthermore I have among a large number of hybrids, two of very high quality between the American sweet chestnut and the chinkapin.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
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The cock's breast is tinged with chestnut.
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I met Erma Lee, a chestnut two-year-old filly, by Stormy Atlantic, that had yet to run.
Liz O'Connell: Proviso: Always on Track
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The high mountains support typical evergreen forests of firs and cypress, whilst on the lower slopes are to be found such trees as pines, chestnuts, and cork oak.
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There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
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There are also street stalls that sell corn on the cob, roast chestnuts and waffles.
Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
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She has picked hazel, horse chestnut and oak.
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I persuaded Edicat-he's the farrier-to reshoe the one mare, not the chestnut.
The Chaos Balance
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Quite a lot, I should think," Cat said, looking at the mass of horse-chestnut leaves pressed against the window.
CHARMED LIFE
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His hair had stayed the same fair straw colour, while mine had reverted to an auburn chestnut shade.
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Selected individuals of this hybrid were intercrossed, and some crossing with the native chestnut was done.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
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He had dark chestnut brown hair without a receding hairline, and eyes, and his skin had an almost olive complexion.
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Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon.
The Land of Little Rain
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The wind rattles through the chestnuts at deep square leg.
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As if on cue, the chestnut roan he had given her to ride stomped its hoof in agreement, undoubtedly tired and hungry herself.
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The Major leaned against the chestnut's trunk.
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The chestnut colt finished second in his racing debut on June 24.
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He emerged on a chestnut horse and rode across a field directly towards press photographers who were on a public road.
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A near relative is the larger and better-known Chinese water chestnut.
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La Cerreta -- with million-dollar hill views out its back window -- sells its own label honeys, pâtés, and chestnut creams, and offers woven baskets piled with forest fruits I'd never seen, including one that looked like a red olive and tasted something like a date.
The Other Tuscany
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This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
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A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts.
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Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup.
Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
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Only bays, chestnuts, or sorrels are accepted into the unit and that's only if they pass the training, vet, and farrier evaluations.
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Clear scientific evidence can be used to support either side of this chestnut-flavored debate, so appeals to the indisputability of one view or another are ill-advised.
Balkinization
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My chestnut hair was sleek and dark and my face was as white as unmarked paper.
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The chestnut delphin slowed to a stop, Danielle halting alongside on Dusty.
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse
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About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers.
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The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye.
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And thus she brought to his own mind those moments of youth, the linden trees, the chestnut trees.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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He leapt to his feet and came pattering over to me, followed closely by Chestnut.
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I just noticed the chestnut tree in our front yard was dying and wondered why.
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The dessert was a rich mixture of chestnut puree and cream.
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Today her hair is chestnut brown.
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Mount Olympus, home of the gods of the ancient Greeks, was said to have had an abundance of chestnut trees producing this sweet, edible nut.
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More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games.
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He wore a chestnut-colored jacket and waistcoat; his necktie was orange, somewhere between rust and coral, and his cufflinks were the same color.
Gay Talese
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The Indian Tree Pie is a long-tailed chestnut-brown bird, with sooty head and neck.
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The fence would be a visual improvement to the existing chestnut pale fence and overgrown plants which currently exist.
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We boiled the Christmas pudding in the old copper and we split and roasted chestnuts on the fire.
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Scatter the remaining chestnuts on top and spoon the rest of the cranberry sauce over.
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A neatly dressed footman in navy blue livery stood, alert, by its side and a pair of gleaming chestnut horses were in harness.
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Farther along, there was some loud drumming coming from a sweet chestnut tree.
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Soon after, a saddled and bridled chestnut horse came striding into view.
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Much better was sweet, tacky chestnut flour tagliatelle with firm little shrimps and mushrooms.
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He was sitting with his legs up on the seat in front of him with the sun shining on his glossy chestnut brown hair.
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Blenheims are chestnut and white, with chestnut ears and a white blaze between the eyes and ears.
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The dessert was a rich mixture of chestnut puree and cream.
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The European mountain-ash -- which in beauty, dimensions, and healthfulness of growth is superior to our own [186] -- the horse-chestnut, and the abele, or silver poplar, are valuable additions to the ornamental trees of North America.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
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The chestnuts give a sweetness and soft, crumbly texture, providing a delicious contrast to the soft rice and slippery mushrooms.
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Asta was a sorrel mare, chestnut colored, with a flaxen mane and tail.
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Thus the new band is relieved of having to play the old Tull chestnuts that work well as boozy, big-room sing-alongs: " Aqualung, " " Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll, " " Locomotive Breath " and others from the band ' s 43-year-old catalog.
Anderson Avoids the Late-Career Tull
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Sophie's hair was also very deep in colour, like raw chestnuts - a warm, ruby brown too dark to be considered truly red or ginger.
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Campanario, famous for its huge Spanish chestnut: both were, however, wasted by the oidium of 1852.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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That day's specials, a beef, red wine and thyme stew, and a chorizo and chestnut soup, sounded equally appetising.
South London's top 10 budget eats
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Caramel, chestnut brown, chocolate and bright colours such as pink, blue and green are on the way.
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The entire process takes about a week and is completed by giving the candied chestnuts a final coating of sugar syrup which dries to a smooth clear gloss.
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Bunny quickly pulled Holly's scrunchie off so that her poker straight chestnut hair shimmered over her shoulders.
JUST BETWEEN US
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A tree that quickly produces a dense carpet of leaves beneath it is the sweet chestnut.
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He left the path along the water and stole under the trees, along the deep shadow of little plantations, where the boughs of chestnut trees hung their great leaves low, and there was blacker refuge, shaping his course in circles which had for their object a stealthy inspection of chairs side by side, against tree-trunks, of enlaced lovers, who stirred at his approach.
The Man of Property
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Her hooded cloak hid her features but wisps of chestnut hair could be seen.
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Over the years we have added scientific investigations on wildlife road kill, tree growth and a study of American chestnut seedling survival.
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His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache.
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Edible plants for your pond include watercress, water chestnuts, and arrowhead or Wapato.
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+Cap+ dark chestnut color, 1½ to 2½ inches broad, thick, convex, covered with a tough gluten, margin inflexed, flesh white or yellowish.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Lithe and graceful, she was tall with chestnut skin and long black hair that swirled in the backwind of the rotors.
Ayelet Zurer Cast as Vittoria Vetra in Angels and Demons - Updated! « FirstShowing.net
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The players use a cesta, or basket, made from Spanish chestnut and reeds to throw the ball up to the blistering speed of 188 miles per hour.
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This same Lethlean article also refers to another kind of porridge, one made from ground corn - polenta - which was also the Italian word to describe gruels made in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from things like spelt, chestnut flour and the aforementioned millet and acorns.
At My Table
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The chestnut horse won eight of 16 career starts and earned $1,261,089.
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Someone could have been selling hot potatoes, roast chestnuts and hot drinks.
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Dimanche dernier = last Sunday gâteau de marron = chestnut cake campagne = countryside
Façonner - French Word-A-Day
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(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
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He was seeing a head of rich chestnut hair marked by a flash of silvery grey.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was once one of the dominant trees of eastern North American forests.
American chestnut tree with chestnut blight
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In the end I chose Italian prosciutto on a salad of blue cheese, roasted chestnut mushrooms and peppers to start.
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It takes me a tick to spot the chestnutcoloured croc languishing on a sandbank.
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Time to re-roast an old chestnut, a column I wrote several years that has become fresh in my mind due to the successful completion last night of Operation Dress-the-Tree (to be followed in a few weeks, of course, by Operation Curse-the-Tree as the needle-shedding skeleton is hauled out to the alley).
O Tannenbaum
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Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above.
Paradise Regained
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The time, however, passed agreeably in making excursions on the shore, where they found "good ground for corn and other garden herbs, with a great store of goodly oaks and walnut-trees, and chestnut-trees, ewe-trees and trees of sweetwood in great abundance, and great store of slate for houses, and other good stones"; or in receiving visits from the natives, who came on the ship in numbers.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
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The chestnut colt is the last foal out of Jewell Ridge, who died on August 1.
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The American chestnut did not really disappear from the eastern forests-it ceased to be a part of the forest canopy and is now a part of the shrub understory.
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Many horse chestnut trees are withered from top to toe, but this is not due to seasonal change.
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She had curly chestnut brown hair, blue-gray eyes, stood 5'8, and had long slim legs that guys drooled over.
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In Portugal we were all very much impressed with one area where the government has had an active program in persuading the chestnut owners to topwork all their trees to three varieties.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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They're also checking related species - chestnuts, beeches, and chinquapins - as well as rhododendron and huckleberry relatives: manzanitas, cranberries, and more.
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The chestnut blight fungus and a bacterial disease menace chestnut and oak.
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Almost equally invigorating is a poached chicken, sliced into strips atop a mound of basmati rice but bathed in a potion of tarragon and chestnuts.
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Bartenders add chocolate ganache and chestnut purée made in the kitchen to steamed milk and add a touch of ground chipotle pepper.
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And chestnut flour can be used in just about anything in which wheat flour is normally used.
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Also, a bike "pannier" (a single saddle bag) fell off of a bike early last Sunday as a rider traveled along Valley Road from Bloomfield Avenue, made a right onto Chestnut Street, and then made a left onto Midland Avenue.
Baristanet
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Now, Hollywood's been known to dredge up old storylines again and again, and occasionally mine repeat gold out of a recycled chestnut.
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Top with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream and chestnut mousse.
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It sat, silver-grey and guilty, beneath the fresh new leaves of a horse-chestnut tree.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut.
In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
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She swung up into the saddle, and nudged the chestnut into a fast lope.
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Chuckling at the raised eyebrow from the pretty girl sitting astride the chestnut roan, he replied to her unasked question.
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And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut Bûche de Noël, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures.
Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
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Ségala chestnuts form an important element in the food of the peasants, and the walnut, cider-apple, mulberry (for the silk-worm industry), and plum are among the fruit trees grown.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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The ruddy duck, an attractive bird with chestnut plumage and a bright blue bill is well settled as a species in England.
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We drove through windblown sheets of rain last night to get to the city for my reading at Books Inc. on Chestnut Street.
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A local speciality is charcuterie - around 50,000 wild boar roam the island foraging for the chestnuts and acorns that give the meat its distinctive flavour.
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The reigning champ Joey Chestnut won for the second year in a row, downing more than 60 hotdogs.
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If you are familiar with downtown Philly, you can probably recognize the streets around Chestnut St. fışkıran su: fountain spraying water; trene inen merdiven: stairs to the train; köşede restaurant: restaurant in the corner; pazar da açık: open also on Sundays.
It was 30 years ago today
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She was chestnut-haired, her face bearing some odd and yet alluring familiarity.
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A boned and stuffed quail, on a chestnut and cinnamon risotto with soused figs?
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The one with chestnut hair wore khaki slacks and a black trench coat, while the other, an Asian man, was dressed in all black.
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Now it's doing so in two places: A second version of the prototype just opened in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
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The debacle in Poznam featured that old chestnut, the diabolical deflection, known and despised since that tragic afternoon in Gelsenkirchen.
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The mixture will become a deep chestnut brown.
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The truffles are sorted, brushed clean, weighed on Roman scales and placed in small chestnut baskets.
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The mixture will become a deep chestnut brown.
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And I can't really tell you how it was made, as I spent the entire recipe-making time chopping walnuts and chestnuts, sneaking teeny bits in every now and then.
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It has not been a good decade for horse chestnuts.
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This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
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Serves 6 (with accompaniments)2 large parsnipsOil, to grease1 small savoy cabbage, 4–6 outer leaves only 150g hazelnuts40g butter1 red onion, finely chopped150g chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped100g cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped100g stilton, crumbled (or other vegetarian-friendly cheese of your choice)100g brown breadcrumbs2 tbsp chopped fresh sage1 free-range egg, beaten1.
How to cook the perfect nut roast
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Thomas Kellaway knew his elm and ash, his yew and chestnut and walnut.
Burning Bright
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And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut Bûche de Noël, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures.
Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
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I first learned about red Kuri squash here, where the charming little guy is known by his French name, potimarron, the 'marron' in the name because it tastes like chestnuts.
Archive 2006-11-01
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In the southern Blue Ridge, the chestnut was replaced largely by oaks and hickories, and also by yellow-poplar, maple, hemlock, and other species, depending on local conditions.
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One damaged chestnut tree and five mature conifers had to be removed.
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She had a sweet smile, and her light olive skin went with deep, chestnut hair.
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Gordon Ramsay suggests chestnut mushrooms, Simon and Lindsey, and James Martin flat black mushrooms, Delia a mixture of dried porcini, soaked before use, and chestnut, and Madelene a veritable melange of oyster, chestnut, shitake and girolles.
How to cook perfect beef wellington
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Wines made in unlined new chestnut barrels can be so tannic as to be undrinkable.
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The soldiers ride bays or chestnuts and use United States Army regulation saddles, saddlecloths, halters, bridles, and curb bits.
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Coarse-textured stuffing is essential to what I regard as one of the glories of Christmas. onions 2 butter a thick slice thyme a large sprig or two rosemary 1 large sprig sausage meat 400g fresh breadcrumbs 3 handfuls cooked peeled chestnuts (boiled or roasted) 50g, roughly chopped Madeira or dry marsala a wine glass Peel and cut up the onions just short of finely chopped.
Tender delights
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Instead, a farmer's son, Heaney sees it as the 'dark-clumped grass where cows or horses dunged,/the cluck when pith-lined chestnut-shells split open' (the latter a line that Hopkins would have welcomed).
Heaney Agonistes
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It had taken Audley four days to complete his report on the current state of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was three days less than he had allowed himself originally; and which, he reminded himself irritably, would have left him ten days buckshee holiday with Faith and Cathy if he hadn't been conned, bullied and dragooned into messing around with politicians 'chestnuts to absolutely no effect.
War Game
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Common foods, which contain phytosterols, are chestnuts, sesame, safflower, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
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The game hen was light, savory and the chestnut stuffing slightly sweet, and deliciously spiced.
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Using trees such as lime, ash, sycamore and chestnut results in a imposing display which is far superior to what smaller garden trees produce.
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Stuffed with either ground meat, olives and raisins, or with a chestnut dressing, the Christmas turkey is a European preparation of a New World bird, far different in culinary character from the turkey served in the dark, rich wedding moles.
A Mexican Christmas dinner: tamales, turkey, tejocotes
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B The branches of huge chestnuts overhung the narrow lane that led to the house.
LOST SUMMER
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She watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees.
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In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
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Drain well, then dress with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice, sea salt and pepper, and add a poached egg, some crisped bacon or some rich chestnuts to turn it into a meal.
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Stoke the fire, roast some chestnuts and get reading.
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The familiar figure of Selwyn Hopkins sat on the bench under the horse chestnut tree, gazing out over the estuary.
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This temperate deciduous oak-hickory forest is dominated by oaks including white, black and chestnut oaks, Quercus alba, Q. velutina, Q. prinus and hickories including pignut and mockernut, Carya glabra and C. tomentosa with some beech Fagus sp., maples Acer spp., tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera, ash Fraxinus sp. and eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana.
Mammoth Cave National Park, United States
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A destructive disease, water chestnut wilt has been found seriously in the south Fujian recent years.
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In general, European chestnut trees haven't suffered as devastating an outbreak as their American cousins.
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Delicate skate in a grainy mustard sauce is bolstered by a forceful bed of savoy cabbage and water chestnuts.
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We have lost too many champions to Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, and oak wilt.
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At present, this old chestnut is typically applied by media publications to female 2012 athletes, who are marshalled into photoshoots billed as the last word in expectations-busting.
On your marks, sex, go … for the glamour Games | Marina Hyde
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This controversy comes a month after council chiefs in South Shields sparked outrage by chopping branches off a horse chestnut tree.
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In some areas, horse chestnut trees have been cut down because of the possibility that children might be hurt playing conkers.
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Something must be awry at the bank, if he has to rely on that old chestnut.
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The celebrant was local priest Fr. Gerry Chestnutt with the reception taking place afterwards in the Granville Hotel.
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Mixed weather and a horse chestnut tree virus were blamed.
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This is Christmas in Connecticut and chestnuts roasting on an open fire, instead of white-out dropping on a 1040EZ tax form, which is more in keeping with this pre-April calendar.
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Most horsechestnuts and many hawthorns are quite bare.
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The sun had been long since covered by the mass of clouds that obscured the grey sky when the new recruitment returned upon a chestnut mare with a large backpack upon his shoulders.
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In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen.
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‘That's right,’ she said, unpinning the scarf and allowing her chestnut hair to cascade poetically over her shoulders.
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He was about as tall as the other man, with shaggy blonde hair and deep chestnut brown eyes.
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The chinkapins and the alder-leaved chestnuts on this side hill have been so blight resistant as to require almost no attention, and for that reason I am making hybrids between the chinkapin and the alder-leaved chestnut and the Chinese chestnut in the hope of making an excellent combination of chinkapin quality and Chinese size.
Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
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Her chestnut eyes were dim with sleepiness as they came in contact with his live blue ones.
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Winding roads, with nail-biting hairpin bends, offer views over steep wooded slopes and the jagged profile of the Alpi Apuane mountain range, where chestnut trees, olive groves and tall cypresses proliferate.
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After all, where were the magic pixies sprinkling marzipan holly berries over pre-Colonial scenes of people broasting chestnuts?
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Kienan Ademetria brushed his long chestnut braid off of his shoulder as he continued to work on the circuit relay.
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The female in breeding plumage has a gray back with chestnut and black on the wings.
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Long-billed curlews, burrowing owls, chestnut-collared and McCowan's longspurs summer in the park.
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The horse chestnut at the back of our flat has reached a decent age.
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In addition to those mentioned, however, as constituting a portion of the staple articles, may be mentioned some of the forest nuts and fruits, such as the chincapin, which is a small nut of the chestnut family, only smaller, sweeter and having the shape of a top.
Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
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The chestnut horse was bred in Kentucky by Vintage Meadow Stable.
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He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians ‘and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York.’
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If chestnuts roasting by an open fire isn't your scene, then an enterprising Yorkshire hotel has the perfect solution.
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Pleasant, thinks I. 'Here, boy, let's have a look at this precious little account -- hum! ha! hunting-saddle, gag-bit for Lamplighter, head-piece and reins to ditto, ~317~~" racing-saddle for chestnut mare, 'etc., etc., etc.; a horrid affair as long as my arm -- total £96 18s. 2d.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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To serve, ladle the soup into bowls and sprinkle over the apple and chestnut granola.
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The chestnut colt moved up three wide to take the lead into the first turn and was clear by two lengths as he covered the first quarter in: 23.28.
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This was especially the case where chestnut-trees were numerous, for the foliage seems to fall in fuller showers in such spots.
Rural Hours
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Many trees, such as lime, sycamore, horse chestnut and willow provide excellent bee forage.
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There will be amusements for children, plus hot food and roasted chestnuts.
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There will be hot roasted chestnuts and other nosh from Christmas past, as well as traditional ornament-making.
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My wild mushroom and chestnut casserole was similar to a veggie beef bourguignon.
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The watching stablemen hooted in laughter as Duncan swung the chestnut around and started off in the opposite direction, rolling his eyes at his friends once he was sure it could not be seen by either Cyril or Johen.
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The chestnut colt also won the 2001 Tattersall Stakes as a three-year-old.
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Typical soils are chernozem (black soil) and chestnut (brown) soils, although they accumulate less humus than the same type of soils to the north and to the west.
Kazakh steppe
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Those species, however, whose seeds are in the form of nuts, such as hickories, black walnut, chestnuts, and oaks, are particularly adapted to propagation by direct seeding.
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods
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All of our results show that the Grey Teal and Chestnut Teal are sister taxa, and we can reject the hypothesis that places the Chestnut Teal and New Zealand teals as sister taxa.
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Stoke the fire, roast some chestnuts and get reading.
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Cultural studies with matai (Chinese water chestnut).
Chapter 13
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Here were the chincapin-bushes, like miniature chestnut-trees, and here were the beautiful poplars.
What Might Have Been Expected
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Eyewitnesses claim to have seen ‘a beautiful woman with wild golden-streaked chestnut-colored hair wearing a golden tanga with little silver stars embroidered beneath the waistband.’
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Her long, wavy, thick, chestnut hair cascaded fluidly down her back.
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With her long silky chestnut hair and a familiar twinkle in her eyes, Vivian had developed into quite an attractive young lady.
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The hen has the appearance of a kind of bulbul, being chestnut-hued with a white breast and a metallic blue-black crest.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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He was quite a tall and muscular chestnut with large brown eyes and white star on his forehead.
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The male, however, is readily recognized with his heavy black bib, which may be rather washed out in winter, white cheeks and chestnut on the back of his head.
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We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.
