And lying there, Cadger watched the two yeggs go through the whole operation of getting nitroglycerine planted, and using all sorts of clothes and even the rugs off the floor of the president's room to deaden the sound of the explosion.
What if both of those yeggs are coming back to get us?
For all we know, these yeggs may even have an eye on your house or mine, because they could make a pretty good haul there.
And first thing I sighted you two, my heart nigh about jumped up in my mought, because I thought them yeggs had dropped around to see if I'd collected my monthly milk accounts in town.
Realizing that there must be a great hue and cry throughout the entire county just then, with reference to the yeggs who had looted the bank, he could easily imagine what had brought these boys here.
See here, do you think the yeggs who did that neat job got away with my biplane?
Just to think that while he was up there with three of his cronies trying to injure our machine, those yeggs were fixing it all up so that they could get his biplane, if they missed ours.
Down the hall they went, Bridge leading with the boy and girl close at his heels while the two yeggs brought up the rear.
Two yeggs known as Dopey Charlie and the General," replied Burton.
Then again, the fact of the two hobo yeggs talking together acted as a buffer, since they were not so likely to keep their ears on the alert for suspicious noises from without.
Wonder if they'll overtake that active bunch; or will the yeggs get across the line as they're planning to do?
I've seen what they call yeggs before now, roving burglars who play the part of tramps, so as to get a chance to look country banks over, and break in some dark night, when the town people are sound asleep.
Most men succumb under such things, and either die, or become cowed in spirit; the yeggs have survived, and their spirit is unbroken.
When a guard is escorting a batch of visitors about the prison, he speaks of the yeggs in an ominous tone, as if they were some deadly monster, hardly to be even looked at with impunity.
I wanted to ask the yeggs too--it seemed only square--but the judge was out of town, and the marshal was afraid his Honor might cite him for contempt if he brought his prisoners to my party.
We got pinched en bloc, and as I was broke I had to sponge on the yeggs to get me out of jail.
While Joe had thus been forced to become their involuntary accomplice, the two yeggs pried open the rear entrance of the store, and then Slippery worked at his profession of safe blowing.
He also heard that the same country store post office had been dynamited twice in the past three months, and that the postmaster had set a trap with the aid of his neighbors, to give the next gang of burgling yeggs a hot reception.
If those yeggs had used dynamite to blow open the vault door I imagine I wouldn't have heard it.
I wish I was as sure of those yeggsthat helped him rob the bank.
But it is easy to understand that a crack like this was made by a bunch of yeggs who probably came into town last night on a hand-car.
Those yeggs must have been vastly astonished when they found all that in the safe.
Now wouldn't it be queer if we managed to capture theyeggs and turn 'em over to the authorities?
I only wish I knew the tramp signs, so I could write a warning on every fence outside the town so's to keep other hobo yeggs away.
He knew how they would inquire, how some day Mason and old Dillon, how Gibbs and all the guns and yeggs would ask about this, how the old gang would ask about it--he must be game.
The letter was a fortnight old; it had been written from a workhouse in a distant city by his old friend Dillon, known to the yeggs as Slim.
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?
The floor was strewn with yeggsand when he had beaten down all opposition he flogged them into their cells.
You yeggs think because I licked Pete Monat I give you license to prize up hell.
Sure—and let a bunch of yeggs spread-eagle him over a chair and beat him with a strap!
For a moment they wrestled furiously, and as the yeggs rushed in to help, the Mexicans swarmed out to meet them; but before either side could lend a hand Philly Black slipped on his own dirty floor and went down with a deadly thud.
There was a note almost of admiration in his voice, for Pecos was punching heads and belting yeggs with the calculating rage of a conqueror.
I give right now for a chance to fill the legs of the slick yeggsfull of bird shot!
Encouraged by this to take a backward peep, Josh discovered that the two yeggs had not only stopped their hot pursuit, but were actually running the other way.
Apparently one of the desperate yeggs had managed to keep his revolver in serviceable condition, in spite of his submersion in the chilly waters of the Mississippi.
When you landed we wondered who you were, because there has been a robbery committed in Lawrence up the river, and the two yeggs who broke into the bank were said to have escaped in a white motor boat with a red band around the gunnel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeggs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
