They came out of the eggs daily, and laughed at him at once; then off they soon flew to be humans, and other birds came out of other eggs; and so it went on for ever.
He sent over to the house-tops for a lot of sparrows and ordered them to lay their eggs in old thrushes' nests, and sent their young to the ladies and swore they were all thrushes!
But one day when we went there were only two eggs in the nest, and the next time there were none.
Still another method is the use of mail or express as a means of transporting the eggs to consumers in urban centers.
Again, there is a ready market for theeggs and for the poultry in the neighborhood where the enterprise is carried on.
In addition to the display of seasonable fruits and vegetables, it is desirable to have eggs and dairy products, including butter, cottage cheese, canned fruits or jellies that have the home-made farm atmosphere about them.
Incubation of duck eggs can be carried on in the same manner as chicken eggs, except that more moisture is essential to good hatches.
Two hours for cleaning houses, cultivating yards, repairing of buildings, preparation of egg cases, packing eggs and miscellaneous jobs.
They are good winter layers, particularly, and some strains have been developed that rival the Leghorn in the number of eggs per bird.
A single breed means uniformity in color, size and shape of the eggs which increases their marketability.
Under this system the individual producer brings his eggs to the auction market where they are graded and sold on the basis of weight, size and other factors pertaining to quality.
This is especially successful in or near large centers of population where eggs can be purchased, together with other farm commodities, at the same stand.
Don't neglect local markets as outlets for the sale of eggs and poultry and don't make shipment of eggs and stock to commission houses of unknown rating.
The fact that a dozen eggs contain approximately one pint of water demonstrates the necessity of having drinking water before the flock at all times.
This breed is noted for its large white-shelled eggs which top the markets where this color egg is in demand.
There are at least four methods of marketing eggs and poultry meat, any one of which can be used exclusively or two or more used in combination as a means of disposing of the product to the best advantage.
Another method is the operation of a retail route in which the producer sells the eggs by the door-to-door method in a near-by city.
This method is followed successfully by many poultrymen who deliver eggs as regularly as the milk distributor or the baker deliver their products.
We however, do not much care whether we are able to distinguish eggs from one another or not.
The similarity of eggs was discussed ad nauseam by the sceptics and dogmatists.
He knew that on board the Belligerent Joshua frequently had kippers for his tea, while six rashers of bacon and six fried eggs often formed his evening meal at a quarter past seven.
In misty weather he often succeeded in approaching unseen, and sometimes dropped his unsavoury eggs before the anti-aircraft guns could get to work and make his life a misery and a burden.
Breakfast, Martin always thought, was quite the most satisfactory meal of the day, and with the addition of a couple of canteen kippers, or eggs and bacon, he generally managed to acquit himself pretty well.
The dust hung and lodged everywhere, and even the porridge, eggs and bacon, and milk were covered with films of black powder.
Pretty Margery's fresh eggs were no longer to be had in Innisfallen; and with a heart as heavy as his footsteps, the worthy man directed his course towards Dingle, where he embarked in a vessel on the point of sailing for Malaga.
FAME (at the window): He has eggs and bacon for breakfast.
So it was that Uncle Wiggily, after having eaten the newly boiled soft eggs, started from his hollow stump bungalow with the hard boiled eggs in his pocket.
With that he champed his beak down on the hard eggs and he had all he could do to bite them.
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, had boiled the eggs too long and they were as hard as bullets.
Suppose you try these," said Uncle Wiggily, taking the hard boiled eggs out of his pocket.
Then Eli got the milk, and began to beat up eggs in a basin, grunting strangely, while he watched me with his strange, wild-looking eyes.
And there I stood while the jeering crowd stood around me, some howling, some throwing rotten eggs at me, and others pelting me with cabbage stumps and turnips.
Perhaps we shall never be so near a farmhouse again," said Mother Bear to Father Bear, "so I think we should buy some eggs of the farmer's wife.
Father Bear and I like scrambled eggs better," and Little Bear winked at Father Bear and Father Bear winked back.
And when Little Bear saw the eggs in her green basket, he was so much pleased that he forgot to be cross, although he did not forget his wish.
We shall not make camp at noon so near a farmhouse," answered Mother Bear, "and the eggs shall be roasted.
Noon is the time for dinner," Little Bear said in grumbling tones, "and roasted eggs are not so good as scrambled.
Then said Father Bear, laughing: "Roasted eggs are not so good as scrambled, and noon is the time for dinner!
Please let us have the eggs for dinner, and let us have them scrambled.
While Father Bear untied the grapevine rope, Little Bear helped Mother Bear to cover the eggs with big green leaves, to keep them cool.
Noon is the time for dinner," he told a big green frog, "and I wish for scrambled eggs at noon.
Father Bear is always right," said Mother Bear, as she emptied the broken eggs into the frying pan and began picking out pieces of the shells and tossing them into the water.
One considers how the scanty supply of water which the waggon carries may be most thriftily used for making the soup, boiling the eggs and brewing the tea.
Our dear and admirable Huxley Cannot explain to me why ducks lay, Or, rather, how into their eggs Blunder potential wings and legs 180 With will to move them and decide Whether in air or lymph to glide.
Plain feathers wears my Hemera, And has from ages olden; She makes her nest in common hay, And yet, of all the birds that lay, Her eggs alone are golden.
Spurn you more wealth than can be told, The fowl that lays the eggs of gold, Because she's plainly clad, man?
Caliban hurried about and looked here and there and made some coffee and brokeeggs in a black pan and cut pieces of bacon.
Stir in the whites of twelve eggs beaten to a stiff froth, just before baking.
First, cause vomiting, then give whites of eggsin water, four whites to one quart water.
Bake; when done, remove from the oven and cover with the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and sweetened with three tablespoonfuls powdered sugar.
Boil one pound halibut, then chop it very fine and add eight eggswell beaten; pepper and salt to taste, then one cup butter.
Then put it in a baking-dish, and when done, cover with a meringue of the whites of eggs and white sugar.
Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth, adding two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Then take the whites of two eggs beat to a froth, and add one pound sugar, the grated rind and juice of one orange, or juice of half a lemon.
If there is vomiting, favor it by giving whites of eggs with water in large quantities, then give infusion of gall or oak bark.
When nearly done, spread over it a layer of fruit jam or jelly and whites of the eggs well beaten.
Boil one quart milk, and while boiling beat sixeggs separately and very light.
In summer, keep the eggs on ice before using them, and always try to make the cake before breakfast, or as early in the morning as possible.
Let the eggs be perfectly fresh, and the pan at least two inches deep in boiling water.
In the house they eat the same things as other tits; but at first, ants' eggs and elderberries must be added.
I shall try next spring, if the same thing happens, to give the eggs to another sitter.
The nuthatch builds its nest in the holes of old trees, and lays six or seven eggs spotted with red.
The female has two broods in the year, and lays two large white eggs each time.
The young must be fed on eggs boiled hard and cut small, but the best way is to take the mother with the covey, which may be done with a net.
A little lean meat and ants' eggs are favourite delicacies, which make it gay and more inclined to sing.
They can sometimes be made to breed in the house, like the canary, but theireggs are rarely fruitful.
They are fed with crumb of white bread, and poppy-seed steeped in milk; some ants' eggs or a little minced lean meat will be a wholesome addition.
The number of the eggs varies from three to five, they are of a greyish white, spotted, speckled, and streaked at the large end with red brown.
When wild, the magpie lives on worms, insects, fruits, or roots, and sometimes eatseggs and young birds in their nest.
Its eggs in general are eight in number, and quite white.
To rear the young ones, they must be taken when half-fledged, and fed on ants' eggs and white bread soaked in boiled milk.
It lays twice in the year, seven eggs each time, whose colour is ashy green.
The goose of the fable that laid golden eggs was an insignificant bird in comparison with Timothy Chance's first fowl.
Putting his duties in uncle's business out of the question, and putting baby and me out of the question, Timothy seems to have only one idea--eggs and fowls.
Fowls lay eggs in every country in the world, and once laid, there they are.
Opening the basket when he was gone, they took out a score of new-laid eggs and a young fowl trussed for roasting.
Timothy has insisted upon my accepting two new-laid eggs a week.
They kindle the fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard.
For example, it is he who creates the city of Cuzco, and sends to earth the three eggs of gold, of silver, and of copper, from which issue the Curacos and their wives and the Mitayocs and their wives.
At last, however, it was done; and eggs were poked in, here and there, to roast.
Mamma permitted them to look for hens' eggs among the whins, because they had heard that when she was a little girl she used to look for them among bushes in a field.
Of course, this puts off the season of hatching; and when, therefore, eggs are found fresh so late in the season, it is pretty plain that someone has been there to take those earlier laid.
He then condescendingly told her that when the eggs of the eider-duck are taken she lays more; and this twice over, before giving up in despair.
In the early summer he seeks eggs all over the island; and, somewhat later, the eider-down.
How can you possibly tell by the eggs that anyone has been here?
Have you received notice that there are no more eggs and oranges on board?
It stated that no more eggs or oranges could be furnished to patients, as the supply was exhausted.
He is not able to retain anything in his stomach but eggs and orange juice.
For several hours last night cases of eggs and boxes of oranges were being carried into the Chief Steward's cabin by a flunky of his from the galley.
I wonder who'll get the shillings for all the eggs and oranges he hoarded away.
I'll write an order to your table steward, and you can beat the eggs up here in your cabin.
One dozen eggs and one dozen oranges every twenty-four hours, to be delivered at any time convenient to you.
He returned with the big meat platter, on which was an omelette made of twelve eggs and stuffed with bacon and fried potatoes.
I believe the United States Government provided the fruit and eggs and meat.
I know that last night a number of cases of eggs and oranges were carried into this room.
We'll get the bird's eggs and chase the calves and colts till the dinner bell rings, ride the horses home from the fields, and go fishin' after dinner and stay till dark.
One dozen eggs a month or one pullet every two months.
Though my mother says she don't know how we eat so many chickens and eggs at the house.
She raises enough chickens and turkeys and ducks and guineas to eat, and she sells a few eggs and young chickens and turkeys when they brings anything in the market.
And I don't even ask you where you got the eggs or the pullet.
They all had chickens and eggs to sell to the big house.
He lurches, just as you may expect, into a stout market-woman laden with eggsand garden vegetables.
Costanza had determined to do as she chose in the matter of cream and eggs the first week, and see what happened at the end of it when the bills had to be paid.
At once the strain of the nest-eggs would be reduced from half to a quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eggs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
