Examples of chestnut

• These are accompanied by sections on the proofs, religious epistemology, and that proverbial old chestnut, the problem of evil.

• Fourthly, an old chestnut that still gets raised in the collection reviewed here: did the guilds rise or fall in influence over the period?

• The meadowland and the chestnuts directly served the needs of the animals but crop growing and animal husbandry were also interconnected.

• This may have put the booming market for history off and driven it back to the old chestnuts.

• This could be easily absorbed by rows of dark chestnut trees planted alongside the harbour inlet.

• To gain recognition and reward for his chestnut-leaf paper, he needed a brevet d'invention.

• Made of wood, this had a long stick handle connected to a rectangular shaped block of chestnut tree wood.

• But in the middle of the twentieth century, the advent of the exclusionary blood test threatened to turn this legal chestnut on its head.