I was thinking that we ought to try and let our folks know how things are going with us, so that if we have to cut out after these yegg aviators they'll know where we've gone.
I wish I knew how we could track this Casper Blue to where the other yeggis hiding near the biplane, and watch them until we saw where they had the cache.
They say the thieves only picked out the papers they could dispose of, and left all the rest, which would indicate that the second yegg must have been in the banking line, some time or other, and knew what was what.
But hardly had he finished this well-meant suggestion, than Kansas Shorty almost in a rage retorted: "Slippery, you are proving yourself to be a regular yegg by the soft talk you have just been giving me.
The verdict of a kangaroo jury is always "Guilty"—why not accuse half the yeggs of disturbing the peace, appoint the jury from the other half, and let yegg nature do the rest?
It landed behind the yegg sheriff's massive jaw, threw him sideways and whirled him over; then the thud of the blow was followed by a thump and like a boneless carcass he piled up on the floor.
Craig succeeded in drawing out from him theyegg recipe for making "soup.
There was a yegg once who was half in, half out, of the window of a P.
No yegg who ever swung under and traveled from town to town without a ticket, knew better than did the Ghost how to make soup.
The sash fell, struck the consignment of hip-pocket soup, and all that was found of the yegg were the soles of his shoes.
They could do more in summer, when people were stirring about, just as the yegg men could do more in winter, when the nights were long and windows were closed and people kept indoors.
Gibbs maintained the same relation with the guns, the big-mitt men, and sneak-thieves, and he bore the same relation to the yegg men and to the prowlers.
He had a high admiration for boldness and courage, and a great love of adventure, and he thought that all these qualities were best exemplified in yegg men.
Looney was tending the fire, while he listened to tales of the spacious days of the great Johnny Yegg himself, and other Titans of the road who have now assumed the state of legendary heroes; and he was, as usual, saying nothing.
There was a thrill still running in his blood since the time the yegg had leaned so close and said: "That wasn't Black Jack's way!
Terry motioned the yegg back and began to slip through the window.
He heard the teeth of Denver grit, as though the yegg were being driven on into this madcap venture merely by a pride which would not allow him to show less courage--even rash courage--than his companion.
The yeggraised an expostulatory hand, but Terry went on: "I'm going to keep straight, Denver.
Evidently theyegg was silently communicating imperious instructions, for presently the dealer said, in a voice natural enough: "Nothing happened, Lewison.
With unwonted energy the old yegg makes the rounds of the cage, taking pledges of contributions.
Snakes," the yegg launches upon a reminiscence of his youth.
Then he told how an idea had come to the mind of an idle yegg named "Missouri" Horton.
We've identified him as Missouri Horton of the Scott Gang--he got a Sing Sing life sentence for yegg work in Yonkers.
And look here: don't you get the notion in your bean I'm just some little old two-by-four guy of a yegg or some poor nut of a dip.
A one-armed yegg could open most of the boxes in this town with a tin button-hook.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yegg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
