"Egg on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of this species containing a single hard-set egg on the 17th August; both parent-birds were by the nest; this is unusually late, ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume
... up an ostrich's egg on the hen-house door). "There, ye deginerate little spalpeens, look at that and thry what ye ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 • Various
... of people in China who would egg on revolts of A and B. All this is wrong. China must fara da se. I painted this picture to the Chinese of 1900: 'Who are those people hanging about with jinrickshas?' 'The sons of the European merchants.' 'What are those ruins?' ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... was to take an egg and ask those present to make it stand upright on its end. After they had tried and failed he struck the egg on the table, cracking the shell and giving it a base ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris
... he's put upon me, if I didn't know who amongst us was most worth care and respect, and it's come to my soul this night, now that I can't no longer stand between you and all the dangers that beset our people in the wilderness, that I wasn't right, maybe, to egg on Halsey to take ye away from your happy home, or to make a point as I did, first off, of getting ye converted—for I was more set on it than I showed at the time. It's because 'twas my doing you married, that I've come to say this; and I see well ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall
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