" They rushed down the stairs, scattering a group of small boys who were roasting chestnuts at the gas-jet in the passage, and on through the box-room, but only to find the door on the other side standing wide open, and the gymnasium itself silent and desertedtwo empty water-cans, lying in a big pool of wet on the cement floor, being the only remaining traces of the recent outrage.

Besought and entreated, the British, who no doubt approved of Italy's move from the first, declined to pull Turco-German chestnuts out of the fire.

Fräulein 'mounched, and mounched, and mounched,' like the sailor's wife eating chestnuts: but those two lovers lunched upon moonshine, upon each other's little words and little looks, upon their own ineffable bliss.

I remember (and who that was reared in the country does not) when I was a boy, how I went out in the sunny days of autumn, after the frosts had painted the hillsides, to gather chestnuts; and when the breeze rustled among the branches, how the nuts came rattling down; and how if the winds were still, I climbed into the trees and shook their tops, and how the chestnuts pattered to the ground like a shower of hail.

"Leave the chestnut to me!"

Yet he rode the spiritless chestnut with both hands, his body canted forward a little, his whole attitude one of desperate alertness.

And on the teapoy in the window stood two dainty baskets of clean willow, in which we had that day brought home chestnuts from the wood;mine was full of nuts, but they were small and angular and worm-eaten, as the fruitage of a wet season might well be; hers scantily freighted, but every nut round, full, and glossy, perfect from its cruel husk, a specimen, a type of its kind.

Besides, as they swung up the roadthe chestnut at a long-strided canter and Nelly's black at a soft and choppy pacethe wind of the gallop struck into her face; Nelly was made to enjoy things one by one and not two by two.

The walnut The butternut The hickory nut The pecan The peanut or ground nut Recipes: To blanch almonds Boiled chestnuts Mashed chestnuts Baked chestnuts To keep nuts fresh Table topics.

At a distance, the tree somewhat resembles a chestnut.

Those grounds with their sea-board are unique, and I never saw such Spanish chestnuts in England.

The pigs ran to eat acorns and the childrenwhite and blackto pick up chestnuts, scaly barks and hickory nuts.

A man with a home to keep may not "cast away his chestnuts," and so when Piero, in that masterful way of his, swept everything before him in the traghettonever asking nor caring who stood for him or against him, but carrying his will whenever he chose to declare itto set one's self against such a man was truly a useless sort of fret, only a "gnawing of one's chain," in the expressive jargon of the people.

Ida crossed the hall in the sunlight, which lit up her beauty and made it seem a more striking contrast than usual to the dull and grim surroundings of the dark oak, the faded hangings and the lack-lustre armour, and Donald and Bess bounded, barking, before her down the terrace at which Jason was holding the big chestnut.

But the same old fields and the same old hedges still remainonly we do not appreciate them as much as did the author of "Westward Ho!" Steventon, that lovely village with its gables and thatched roofs, its white cottage walls set with beams of blackest oak, its Norman church in the midst of spreading chestnuts and leafy elms, appears from the railway to be one of the most old-fashioned spots on earth.

He found in his pocket a roast chestnut Mariuccia had given him, and began to shell it.

I remember the burning brushwood, Glimmering all day long Yellow and weak in the sunlight, Now leaped up red and strong, And fired the old dead chestnut, That all our years had stood, Gaunt and gray and ghostly, Apart from the sombre wood; And, flushed with sudden summer, The leafless boughs on high Blossomed in dreadful beauty Against the darkened sky.

He seemed to make up his mind, presently, that nothing would follow the chestnut out of the distance and he began to move about Alcatraz in a rapid gallop, constantly narrowing his circle.

To the poor soldiers they gave dried chestnuts.

[Footnote 61: In this enumeration of trees Varro does not include the chestnut which is now one of the features of the Italian mountain landscape and furnishes support for a considerable part of the Italian population, who subsist on necci, those indigestible chestnut flour cakes, just as the Irish peasants do on potatoes.

"Something or other has killed all the chestnuts in this part of the world in the last two or three years.

That morning a shell had hit the chestnut-tree in the garden of his neighbor, at No. 12, and had knocked all the chestnuts into the garden of the consulate.

"Lost your chestnut?" queried O'Brien in concern.

Longears, full of curiosity, like most intellectual characters, had approached very near Verty as he was mashing the chestnuts upon the stone selected for the purpose, and even in the excess of his interest, had protruded his nose in the vicinity of the young man's left hand, which held the nuts, while he prepared to strike it with the mass of limestone which he held in his right.

Use as much of this as required to moisten the chestnut, and mix it to a stiff paste.