And he arrived at the laying-yard and caught Jerry, red-pawed and red-mouthed, in the midst of his fourth kill of an egg-layer, the raw yellow yolk of the portion of one egg, plastered by Agno to represent many eggs, still about his eyes and above his eyes to the bulge of his forehead.
During the season, he lived almost entirely on megapode eggs. On rare occasion he even had megapodes that were near to finishing their laying killed for his kai-kai.
Jerry of the Islands
Certain that he was dreaming, he turned the egg over and over in his hands, fondled it, kissed it, and talked to it:
But in place of the white and the yolk of the egg, a little yellow Chick, fluffy and gay and smiling, escaped from it.
Adventures Of Pinocchio
Coming from
eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size.
Princess of Mars
'Five.' 'Now,' said the father to the eldest son, 'take away the
eggs without letting the bird that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.' So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five
eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
Fairy Tales
She was still thinking of the
egg, though; so presently she asked:
Ozma of Oz
The big snake turned half around, and saw the
egg on the veranda.
Jungle Book
The fox told her he knew where there was a partridges nest and a bluejays nest full of
eggs. So he led her to the nests and she took five
eggs out of each.
The Golden Road
SHE tried to hide her
eggs; but they were always found and carried off.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
"On the contrary," said Guph, "there are now hundreds of chickens in Oz, and they lay heaps of those dangerous
eggs. I met a goshawk on my way home, and the bird informed me that he had lately been to Oz to capture and devour some of the young chickens.
The Emerald City of Oz
He mentioned this to his mate and when he told her that the
Eggs would probably conduct themselves in the same way after they were fledged she was quite comforted and even became eagerly interested and derived great pleasure from watching the boy over the edge of her nest--though she always thought that the
Eggs would be much cleverer and learn more quickly.
Secret Garden
Then up she flew; deserting her
eggs, so as to make her meaning clear.
The Adventures of Peter Pan
The number of
eggs in the nest varies from twenty to forty, and even to fifty; and according to Azara, some times to seventy or eighty.
The Voyage of the Beagle
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their
eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.
The Origin of Species