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Letter "C" » chestnut
«April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.»
Author: E. Y. Harburg
(Librettist, Lyricist, Song Writer)
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April, blossom, chestnut, chestnuts, holiday, Paris, tables
«The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.»
Author: Bible
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boughs, branches, cedars, cedar tree, chestnut, fir, Garden of, In the Garden, The Fir
«Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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affairs, chestnut, chestnuts, cunning, damage, fingers, forced, guard, intent, intentions, intent on, motives, of your own, the fire, watchfulness
«There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.»
«For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.»
«The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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beget, chestnut, fetch, gorgeous, horse chestnut, sickly
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