Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree....… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an… — Nicholas Culpeper Copy Share Image
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord.… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
“These napkins are more holy than righteous,” Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
