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Chestnuts in sentence

18 examples of Chestnuts in a sentence

You smell chestnuts roasting.
Best moments, as another reviewer noted, come when Glenda Jackson is on screen; but even Jackson's crackling good cinematic power can't pull this film's chestnuts from its cold, never warmed hearth.
The basic story may be the oldest of chestnuts, but it is here embellished with some degree of incisiveness.
Turning to the International Monetary Fund or others when it comes to pulling our chestnuts out of the fire will not bring us the needed confidence in the European project.
The ECB has pulled the eurozone’s proverbial chestnuts out of the financial fire.
For these “moderate” American allies, peace is about Israeli concessions, not about pulling Israel’s chestnuts out of the fire, certainly as long as it refuses to endorse the Arab peace plan.
On the way he caught up a band of women among whom he recognized Mother Brulé and the Levaque woman; as they walked they were eating chestnuts which Mouquette had brought; they swallowed the skins so as to feel more in their stomachs.
The few crusts of the morning and Mouquette's chestnuts had long been forgotten; their stomachs were crying out, and this suffering was added to their fury against the traitors.
Its white houses with their high pitched roofs of red tiles are spread over the slope of a hill, the slightest contours of which are indicated by clumps of sturdy chestnuts.
After having been almost suffocated at first by his sense of scorn, Julien ended by feeling pity: it had often been the lot of the fathers of the majority of his comrades to come home on a winter evening to their cottages, and to find there no bread, no chestnuts, and no potatoes.
By this time day had fully broken and everything showed distinctly, and Don Quixote saw that he was among some tall trees, chestnuts, which cast a very deep shade; he perceived likewise that the sound of the strokes did not cease, but could not discover what caused it, and so without any further delay he let Rocinante feel the spur, and once more taking leave of Sancho, he told him to wait for him there three days at most, as he had said before, and if he should not have returned by that time, he might feel sure it had been God's will that he should end his days in that perilous adventure.
It had been raining all morning, I remember--a soft spring rain, which sent up a rich smell from the brown earth and pattered pleasantly upon the budding chestnuts behind our cottage.
Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
To come to us they had crossed the length of the 'département', dragging with them baskets full of chestnuts and other Christmas fare rolled up in napkins.
Only two boys were in the classroom, which smelt of chestnuts and sour wine, two sweepers who were shifting the tables.
I was at such a loose end that three or four times I quite liked throwing back the chestnuts to him over the wall.
His garment was worn, and more full of holes than a stove for roasting chestnuts.
Immense supplies of wine, olives, and chestnuts were brought to the city; sheep and cattle were driven in every day from the mountains.