Eggs
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To dream of finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial character, happiness among the married and many children. This dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women. To eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home. To see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you her richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make you beloved by the world. To dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation. To see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage in profitable speculations. To dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches of doubtful origin. To see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations, or gain from an unexpected rise in staple products.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Ham and eggs or eggs with cheese? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As I reached their side a glance showed me that all but a very few eggs had hatched, the incubator being fairly alive with the hideous little devils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The cave of the lost eggs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Sherlock Holmes swallowed a cup of coffee, and turned his attention to the ham and eggs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The next moment he saw it dolorously bespattered with eggs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Mervin