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“Some peasants outside predict a storm, and counsel us to get down into the valley as quickly as may be; so the chesnut is hastily put to, and we rattle off just as the first heavy drops come splashing down to a low accompaniment of very distant thunder.”
“Heb. ` armon (Gen. 30: 37; Ezek. 31: 8), rendered "chesnut" in the”
“It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.”
“The original text reads 'chesnut'] chestnut 2,800 feet, of the pine 6,500 feet, of heaths and furze to 8,700 and 9,700 feet; and perpetual snow exists at an elevation of 8,200 feet.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“Leonard Cohen sat between Ginny and the arm of the sofa, long hairs on his forearms hanging down, also fringed, light brown, almost blonde, the foamy head to the chesnut stout of his body.”
“Haflingers may range in color from light gold to chesnut to liver.”
“Endemism is relatively low except for avifauna, which includes the species buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) and chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus).”
“What i think is happening is a real life version of that old chesnut The opposite of love is not hate.”
“The screenwriters never miss an opportunity to toss in a tired phrase eeriely similar to the infamous Vegas tagline “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” only narrowly avoiding the use of that old chesnut in a flurry of similar quips.”
“21″ just like Vegas- all flash and no substance » Scene-Stealers
“" What you call an “old chesnut” - “you can't control it” is a fact.”
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