He dumped Chicken Little into a burlap sack and tossed him next to some egg crates and boxes of wool cloth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The eggs had awakened it fully, roaringly, so that it tore at him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

George would have to ride into one of their neighborhoods one of these nights and toss a few eggs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the red cement floor was laid, the egg whites from nearly nine hundred eggs went into it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I love eggs! Can I eat it?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I took one last look around Halliday’s office; then, still clutching the egg in my hands, I walked across the room and stepped through the exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tiller passed around tin plates, which Sairy heaped with eggs and bacon and warm biscuits. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

More than eggs, more than knowledge, more than anything this was food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he put one of the fluffy towels, the Cloak, the map, and the egg at the side of the swimming-poolsized bath, then knelt down and turned on a few of the taps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The food is supposed to be incredible. Snails, fish eggs, the works.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk, and already to the east there was a darkening to pur-ple. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fried eggs covered with grease, fresh-squeezed orange juice with seed and pulp floating in it, thick hand-cut bacon, a white-hot mound of grits and biscuits. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an angular, arthritic hen settling stiffly on her clutch of eggs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think, maybe, putting that egg back was even worse than throwing it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One egg was a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was on a day in early summer that the goose eggs hatched. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were useless since they couldn’t lay eggs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to make sure the queen has plenty of room to lay her eggs, or else we’ll get a swarm,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing was: a middle-aged couple was standing in the buffet line right behind the devil dog, patiently waiting their turn for the eggs. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She expertly tapped off a little crown of shell from her egg. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All right...you’re on the field. Each of you heads for a bird—and not the same bird. No fighting over who gets which bird. This ain’t an Easter egg hunt.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

On that July morning, her weekend bag already packed for Massachusetts, she was making scrambled eggs when the phone rang. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are fluffy mounds of scrambled eggs, shiny sausage links, a bacon extravaganza. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

These variant qualities were hereditary—carried as discrete instructions in sperm and eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before she reached the house, she realized that the shell of the egg was wiggling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“And I broke all the eggs in our house,” I said. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Big gulls eat the eggs of little gulls,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about how this must be what it's like to go to heaven—walking toward the blinding light, with the smell of bacon and eggs all around. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I told him he could have my eggs, all three. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the middle, the Leader sat complacently, laying eggs, attending to the broadcasts, issuing directions or commanding executions, surrounded by a sea of adulation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He digs into a pile of scrambled eggs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Jay went to feed the chickens and get a few eggs, and Doc went to dig the vegetables out of the ground: sweet potatoes, mustard greens, onions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Halfhand helped himself to an egg and cracked it on the edge of die bowl. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As I watched Mom dish eggs and Soyrizo onto two plates, I thought about the family tree assignment for Spanish class. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Like children looking for Easter eggs, we searched for strawberries hidden between the leaves. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They are in fact spruce budworm eggs, in section; though I would not expect anyone but a biologist to recognize them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smooth to the touch, it was a milky white color with flecks of orange and violet, oval-shaped, like a miniature egg. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was yellow cheerful, she wondered, and why was it always a surprise—even when it came in an ordinary shape, like a lemon or an egg yolk? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I ready to put a towel on her eggs to keep them warm, when Mama Duck come flying home. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Heat shimmered in waves around the dragon's eggs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I sit there thinking the secret to good scrambled eggs was probably the one true thing Safer ever told me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then they visited the Apothecary, which was fascinating enough to make up for its horrible smell, a mixture of bad eggs and rotted cabbages. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

While I paused to cry and my math teacher passed me a box of tissues — do all the kids crack like robins’ eggs when they get hauled in here? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d grown up together in the church, attending the Easter egg hunts as children and later participating side by side in the youth programs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before Dad could stop me, I sprinted into our greenhouse, took the eggs out of the carton, one by one, and slammed them into the dead plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When she brought it out again she was holding a stone in it, a gray stone not much bigger than a bird’s egg. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration of egg tempera are too much for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later the captain climbed down out of the rocket to get some ham and eggs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit like I have an egg in my mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that these beetles come to dead bodies, on which they feed and lay their eggs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fixed myself some eggs and ate them out of the pan, without bread because I didn’t have any left and I didn’t feel like going downstairs to buy some. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d used a drawing compass to outline them, so they looked more like happy polka dots than like eggs—but they were perfect if you asked me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She waved her hand at the nightstand, where someone had set a glass of orange juice and a plate of poached eggs and bacon on toast—Frank’s favorite breakfast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It happened rather suddenly one day, after Rachel burned up an egg omelet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched as he rang up the return, expertly flipping the tiny egg in the frying pan like he was actually cooking it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the next nine years, knowing that I’d earned it, I made myself a fat peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast each morning and consumed not a single egg. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had a fire but no way to cook them, no container, and he had never thought of eating a raw egg. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every child pays fourpence a week. Sometimes they pay with eggs or wool or such things instead. It will help, Kit, a great deal.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When Adria took the container from under the sink this time, we noticed a yellow blur seeping out from the eggs and clouding the water. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my basket of eggs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Welsh Green’s eggs are an earthy brown, flecked with green. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched, panting, pressing the cold, smooth egg to my lips. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When baby turtles come out of their shells, which are round—about the same size as a golf ball—they are squinched up into a round shape that fits inside the eggs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just walked into the hospital and dropped her like an egg and went home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because now Chapter Eleven, my five-year-old brother, and Jimmy Papanikolas are each holding a red egg. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He felt like getting up early and watching his dad try to make breakfast, crack the eggs and drip them all over the counter. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Breakfast comes to the dining room and the omelet is like a science experiment: is the lack of cheese explained by the mysterious holes that dot the alleged egg? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each egg cup has an initial on it, one for each person in the family. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie mopped up the last of my eggs with the projectile floor toast and stuffed it into his fat mouth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ni^oise salad is the first course, which I spent all morning making, arranging the hard-boiled eggs and olives perfectly on each of the twenty-five plates. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So without further ado,” Anorak announces, “let the hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg begin!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He took the plate of eggs and bacon, but it didn’t look good to him now. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Greek diner is open and there’s a stoop-shouldered man in the back booth eyeing his bacon and eggs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Old Yeller off from the house and broke the eggs on a flat rock right under his nose and tried to get him to eat them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But you’re not through eating. You want some ham and eggs?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I carried the groceries back and left them on the porch, there was smoke coming from the chimney, and the milk, eggs, and vegetables were gone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

To become a Sixer, you had to sign a contract stipulating, among other things, that if you found Halliday’s egg, the prize would become the sole property of your employer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I put the eggs in a brown paper bag and added them on top. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Somkit went back into Mark's kitchen and came out with dishes of fish meatball soup and fried eggs and scallions over rice. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Had her Product, like the discolored, eyeless egg, been thrown aside someplace? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you have two eggs we can borrow?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She could feel the chicks move inside the eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

S’meggs needed all the help it could get in the egg drop competition. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

About fifty-five days after being laid, the eggs hatch. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You re just the person we need, Mary Poppins. My wife’s off gadding, and I’m left to sit on the eggs. Do take a turn, there’s a good girl. I need a little rest.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Trip forked a piece of egg into his mouth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Just until you help us find the egg.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car, chanting: “Buy from me, oh, I will sell well to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m impressed with my catlike recovery, but sticky egg white and yolk drip down my fingers because in my effort not to fall, I’ve crushed the egg in my hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Their blood is a good, nutritious, salt-free drink; their flesh is tasty and filling; their fat has many uses; and the castaway will find turtle eggs a real treat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The eggs and coffee and big biscuits disappeared rapidly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets up and hands me a can of peas—but it isn’t full of peas; it’s full of scrambled eggs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dean pointed at the same girl who used to pretend to be a pony at Miss Throckmorton's and make nests using acorns as eggs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even covered in egg, he couldn’t help but smile around her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Other eggs were taken from nests left unattended as parent robins were stricken with poison; these too contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By six o’clock they were in the house and by eight they had a meal of eggs, bacon, and tea. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eggs hatch around the first week in June, and the nestlings are ready to fledge in early July. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Told Templeton she didn’t want the egg any more,” repeated Fern. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I shifted my backpack on my shoulders, feeling the weight of our eggs and their armor, trying to move as little as possible so they wouldn’t break. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But let’s focus less on these nicknames and more on our egg designs.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big old Mama Duck sitting on some eggs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As she got closer to the thing on the wall, she saw that it was some kind of a sac, like a spider’s egg case. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Silkworm eggs appeared on a list of parasites. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

During his continued trips around the city, he saw cars set afire, buggies overturned and their horses lashed, women assaulted, sailors fighting with civilians, and rocks and eggs thrown at innocent bystanders. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He had just finished a ten- hour shift, eggs over easy and cheeseburgers since 5:00 a.m. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Put a hundred rotten eggs in your mind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny ceramic fried egg nestled in an equally tiny ceramic skillet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The fried eggs lay in rows on their platter. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d blow the yolks out of the eggs, and paint little faces on them. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had an uncle named Carter, his father’s brother, who always put an egg in a glass of milk and drank it in the morning. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the late addition of chopped fresh mint to a blend of melted chocolate, egg yolk, coconut milk, rum, gin, crushed banana and icing sugar, the cocktail was not particularly refreshing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fourteen hundred years later, the descendants of those first stolen eggs filled my grandmother’s silkworm box on the Giulia. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She thought we were going on a picnic, and in fact there is a picnic basket on the back seat, beside her, with real food in it, hard- boiled eggs, thermos and all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the bar to find some matches, and when he came back she was dipping her dirty finger in the bowl of beaten eggs and licking it greedily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t long before we was working on a mess of eggs, grits, and biscuits. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she look like she did when she looked at those cold duck eggs Mama Duck left behind. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was on this very Formica table where you could still see the egg stains from my family’s breakfast that the bombs were made. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same thing every time: fried eggs. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to make some scrambled eggs,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Antonio,” my mother smiled and took the eggs and milk, “come and eat your breakfast.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat calmly, a tent over her precious eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They tried to move the eggs to another site this morning.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She pulls her chair over to the fireplace.We all eat our bread and egg and watch her cry till she says, What are ye gawkin’ at? and turns away to look into the ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Maria discovered, all butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis, which means they move through four very different phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Six beads from a child’s necklace, five building blocks, a darning egg, a bone, a small harmonica, and a partly consumed lollipop. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I don’t know about you, but that sounds exactly like Henrietta’s eggs to me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Under the skirt is the second egg, being kept warm. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the egg and pickle spears, but he looked longer at me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The eggs no longer look as appetizing as they did a second ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had actually watched the laying of an egg. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the ragged tom was curled up in an egg box, contentedly snoozing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one who had taken her eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then we all three ate ourselves nearly to oblivion on the best eggs and bacon I ever tasted in my life. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drove iron stakes into the ground to fortify the chicken coop against future mink attacks and treasured the few eggs he gathered every morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos pushes his red eggs around his plate. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In my right hand was a toy plastic sword, and in my left was a large glass egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We found bread, cheese, jam and eggs in his cupboard. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, with resolve: “I’ll bring my silkworm box. And some eggs. So we can make money.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She reached into the bag and pulled out a bit of toast that had once had a quail’s egg on it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He sits, so I sit next to him, and scoop some of the eggs into my mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You like eggs and figs. And tomatoes. They were in our lunch. They grow outside.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Soft, pale blue, with a fraying edge around the bottom that will never show, bought yesterday in the market with what should have been the egg money. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two days later Frightful laid a second egg. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In front of us sat two dozen hard-boiled eggs in a bowl. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how hungry I’d been until I wolfed down three eggs and a loaf of bread in under five minutes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like sugar diffusing out of a cube in a cup of coffee, they are present at high concentration on one end of the egg, and low concentration on the other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I made some—milk, egg yolks, sugar, salt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a nearby room lit by dim red lights, she had watched another gloved worker look through trays of stacked fertilized eggs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her insides felt runny, like a fried egg that hasn't cooked enough. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When he left in November, Eva had $1.65, five eggs, three beets and no idea of what or how to feel. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They found Dolorous Edd frying a rasher of bacon and boiling a dozen eggs in a kettle over the Old Bear's cookfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This morning, I told the chickens that my parents said their eggs were delicious, and that all the rest of my family wanted to have some too, and to know all about them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then I rolled the whole, smooth egg over the patient’s arms and legs and neck and stomach and back and head, to soak up all the evil air. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put six eggs into a cardboard container and placed it in a peach basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Here’s how Gracie Allen might have talked about a souffle recipe, for instance: It is possible to make this souffle with four eggs instead ofeight. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a steep cliff his mate of last year had laid eggs that had broken under her weight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The soup was made with eggs and lemons, th6 long green peppers stuffed with cheese and onions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I crack the egg and empty it out in my hands. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m convinced an Eggmobile would be worth it even if the chickens never laid a single egg,” Joel told me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the eggs being cracked and then, slowly, the hiss of the pan. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Shortly before ten A.M. on May 7, 1896, after a breakfast of boiled eggs, dry toast, and coffee, Holmes was escorted to the gallows at Moyamensing Prison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He thanked the Lord for nearly everything under the sun, including the deviled eggs on the plate in front of him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mom and Connor come join us at our table, where I am now nibbling along the edge of my Danish, while Jack shovels scrambled eggs into his mouth like his life depends on it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wants the sale of his eggs and meat to help other local businesses, like small shops and restaurants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad stops stirring eggs and stares at my empty glass. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knot on his forehead was big as a double-yolk egg. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Its diameter matched that of the silver egg I held in my hands. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I have never heard of an egg cup before and I can tell Grace hasn’t either, by the way she keeps silent about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had been right in giving a girl’s name to Lurai, for she laid speckled eggs and, with some help from her mate, hatched two ugly fledglings which soon became beautiful. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the fly inserted its eggs inside the moth cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe, he thought, it really is time to move Frightful and her eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now we gently folded my egg whites into the thick syrup, then poured the airy, toast-colored mixture into a souffle dish and put it aside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I can hear the taptap callers, the fresco vendors, the egg seller's shout, the truck horns. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head tilted happily back, like a sparrow egg perched on a duck egg, she smiled into the sun. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The santero leads the goat over the offerings and quickly pierces its neck with a butcher knife, directing the stream of blood onto the clay eggs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashers of bacon and a heap of fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone threw raw eggs at the blue house. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I see a raven by the side of the road, picking at a porcupine that’s been run over by a car, its quills like a huge burr, its guts pink and scrambled like eggs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why the falcons didn’t come back to the eggs,” Flip said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like I said before, she seem like a new-laid egg, but at school, all the boys say they done her. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Twig handed me a drawing of an egg covered in cotton balls. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A loco moco is a mountain of rice topped with a hamburger patty topped with gravy topped with two fried eggs. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The egg pudding fell to the tablecloth, and Turner’s father did not notice. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I — well, like I say, I’ve taken a liking to you. Just thought I’d offer . “Well, thanks,” said Harry, “but I think I’m nearly there with the egg . . . couple more days should crack it.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I knew eggs were kept in cool places, so I looked in iceboxes and basements. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The cells looked a little bit like fried eggs, sunny-side up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky molasses and egg whites coated his shoes as he picked up the cake and flung it hard at the steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Followed by a string of curses from George McNab that fried the cold morning like an egg. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Developmental and reproductive biology were recognized and defined as sciences here, beginning with sea-urchin eggs and working up. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was tea, in a great silver urn, and coffee too, and on the heater, piping hot, dishes of scrambled eggs, of bacon, and another of fish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to ask for his money back until he discovered that people driving through town on their way back up to the city would pay a fortune for a dozen Easter-colored eggs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Infest him, sire, with maggots in his flesh and spider eggs in his eyes. Put larvae inside here"—it tapped its forehead—"so he can hear them buzzing as they grow." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the kitchen cutlery while he broke six eggs into a bowl and whisked them with a fork. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate the bread and half an •* egg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cameras had shown him throwing things at officers and egging on other inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The human eggs that jump-started their development were always in demand, and commanded a high price. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful stood over the eggs, not sitting on them to start incubation, but protecting them from the freezing air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Come, I’ll help you find enough eggs to satisfy the cook, and then we will talk together.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She set a frying pan over the flames and broke some eggs into it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge tells about “a country girl,” sent into Philadelphia supposedly to sell eggs but told to “obtain some information respecting the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I have an egg, what more can I want? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if she’s getting ready to lay eggs,” he says, flipping through his notebook. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We keep three hens, and I take one of the two eggs that was in a nest and carry it out behind the bushes. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather guy on TV called it a “scorcher” and said you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As we waited for Dari to reach the bottom, Twig and I took each egg out of its protective wrapping and lined all of them up on the windowsill. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I took up the silver knife and cracked off the cap of my egg. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t going to end like I’d always thought it would, with some noble, worthy gunter finding the egg and winning the prize. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Bring me . . . egg . . . dragon's egg . . . please . . ." Her lashes tinned to lead, and she was too weary to hold them up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stopped hunting for eggs, and stared at me again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard somewhere that it was possible to cook an egg on a car or cement if it was hot enough outside, and she’d been needling Kaori about it ever since. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Usually when Gramps cussed like this, Gram threatened to go back to the egg man. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was the first year nobody was interested in hiding any eggs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But, then again, we had the eggs, and we were here, and nothing was going according to plan. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t made me eggs in a while, The Zed,” she said, coming over to kiss him when she saw that he was awake. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Resolutely, Luke stuck his fork in the pile of scrambled eggs on his plate and took a bite. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did the adults prefer the nectar from certain kinds of flowers, but they laid eggs only on certain plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Abby and I sneaked to the door as she yelled, “Spiny lumpsucker!” and waved her fingers around, dripping egg yolk on the floor before dashing over to the sink. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Olanna immediately wondered whether he could help her get some egg yolk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t chew very well, so I mostly get soft foods like scrambled eggs or oatmeal or applesauce. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had been so intent on telling Sirius all about Snape and Moody he had completely forgotten to mention the egg’s clue. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She dissected a frog and raised its eggs, recording each stage. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The disappearing chicken laid an egg this morning! Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I want to get rid of this sin and have rashers and eggs and no guilt, no torment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Still another sold eggs from a basket, and another sold coconuts. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the stove was roaring, she set the eggs and wedges of fruit on top, and sat to wait. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Still,” said HairySpiders, licking her paws, “it’d be a shame to let perfectly good egg goo go to waste. One creature’s nastiness is another creature’s nibble.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Who ever heard of a robin moving her eggs every week to a new tree? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But after a while the birds got used to the digging, resettled upon their freckled eggs, and hatched out ten thousand little killdeer that scurried around Cleofes Apodaca’s pit peeping hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ideal night for a momma turtle to crawl up and lay her eggs, I thought. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That nestling had opened his beak so wide he could have swallowed the very egg he’d pecked his way out of. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Servants push in breakfast carts overflowing with hard-boiled eggs, grilled-meat and fruit tarts, pastries, fried bacon, and sweet toast, but Ivy shoos them out, then races to Elisabeth's office door. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five fluffy little yellow chicks hatched from our eggs today, my grandmother wrote. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while the chickens are nibbling on the grasses, they add a few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture with their own droppings— and produce several thousand rich and tasty eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I scrape my fork against the scrambled eggs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I scoop the Spam into a serving bowl and add two eggs and seasoning salt, and I chop up the last few pieces of old bread we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Or cereal. Or eggs. Or grits. You need some grits, Howard?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She placed the egg inside the nest, placed the nest on her flat shoulder, and climbed up into the branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And Muff pressed them to take half of the eggs each day, which helped stretch the groceries. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A little one, that lives in oak trees, and eats wasps and worms and sparrows’ eggs—it grows no greater than this. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan tried to be more practical, picking out staples like eggs, flour, and various proteins and side dishes to go with them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With the leftover egg whites, she fashions star-shaped meringues, which she serves with the ice cream day after day, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when Biddy asleep, I went outside and buried them eggs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Meg eyes me, egging me to play along. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

We collected most of the eggs while they were still warm. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pounded fufu, made garden egg stew from eggplant and dried fish, and gathered more bananas, mangoes, and papayas. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large bowl piled high with hot boiled eggs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why were you talking about eggs and potatoes?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I assume I am his enemy until I see a crow sneaking toward his nest intent upon eating the eggs. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the boiled egg, her breakfast tray contained more of the thick bread and a bowl of warm cereal swimming in cream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is under arrest, locked up on the Discovery, and his private store of wine, dried beef, eggs, oatmeal, and other good food has been shared equally among all of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“She must have brought the eggs back to temperature,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He found it impossible to cut the top off a boiled egg. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it’s going to crack in half like an egg. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Briskly, Cecilia moved about her tasks, mixing milk and water to egg powder, and setting out a pot of jam and three plates and cups on the table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On Saturday mornings Dad usually makes the best breakfasts: fluffy buttermilk pancakes, cheesy eggs, and crispy bacon. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We have eggs, buttered toast, and a glass of milk each for dinner; there’s a small sack of coal in the corner, and magazine cuttings pinned all over the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That order had apparently not yet been conveyed to the clinic’s kitchen, for the breakfast tray contained scrambled eggs, three rashers of bacon, and several pieces of buttered toast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear more about the shepherds dancing in the Easter egg,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rahel could see it coursing through his veins, as clearly as an egg traveling down an ostrich’s neck. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chacko lifted the fried eggs onto the toast, broke the brilliant, wobbling yokes and spread them over the strawberry jam with the back of his teaspoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to make sure they were new combs with no brood eggs in them, since nobody wanted to have baby bee larvae in their honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning over eggs and bacon, I ask Dad if I should skip school to check on Erin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria now felt certain—based on her own observations—that all European butterflies and moths followed the same cycle of transformation: egg to caterpillar to pupa and back to egg again. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I have brought apples and eggs. I can also offer a lovely honey wine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Runt was gone, but in a few moments he came back, two more eggs held carefully in his mouth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

These ladies seemed most disinterested in setting on their eggs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jody took three eggs on his plate and followed with three thick slices of crisp bacon. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen a show on television about sea turtles that came up onto beaches and laid their eggs in the sand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each suck out the insides of an egg, eat a rabbit leg and some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Kenya and Maya egg her on in egging me on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock Darling had eaten a raw egg and half a pint of whipped cream by herself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lied and told her we had eaten eggs for dinner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I watched the eggs start to turn white. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A brown hen sat on the nest, her wings fluffed around the eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Inside it were leftovers from somebody’s lunch: a deviled ham sandwich, a piece of Swiss cheese, part of a hard-boiled egg, and the core of a wormy apple. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were already eating, the smell of microwaved sausage and fried eggs coating the apartment, when Doreen walked in, carrying three bags of groceries. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dad watches as I float forkloads of rubbery eggs up to my mouth. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what our egg dropper would have looked like if Mom had helped us, if she had been happy and real and full of experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell them fresh, for the eggs,” she says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one small icebox that held milk, butter, eggs and cold cuts in plastic packaging. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam had ordered each of us a simple meal of scrambled eggs, bacon, and two pancakes without syrup. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every fiber of my body wanted that creamy cheese and those eggs and the ice cream that had already melted. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Gogol and Maxine swim over to Hank and Edith’s for lunch, for egg salad sandwiches and canned tomato soup. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She paused in knocking her egg against the counter to break it and waved at him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She ate fluffy eggs and thinly sliced salmon and crescents of fresh melon, watching Curt and his mother, both blindingly golden-haired. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The air reeks something horrible, a combination of carrion, rotting eggs, and Cadets’ quarters in high summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“One to goose egg, sportsfans,” Bull shouted at his booing family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I restack picture books and place the toys back in wooden bins while she sweeps for cookie crumbs, egg splots, cracklings of hard candy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Literally hundreds of aphids are consumed by a single ladybug to stoke the little fires of energy which she requires to produce even a single batch of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Spiral cut ham, eggs cooked every which way, jam in pots, bowls of oranges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My notes read: “February 10 “I think the great horned owls have eggs! My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Twig nor I knew exactly what to say, so we stood there for a second, looking at the bits of egg and cotton in his hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The penetrating call touched Frightful’s survival instinct, and she flew off the eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In very short time we have collected a dozen eggs and two pounds of fairly fresh butter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To hell with our competition! And the egg!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If you got a headache, rub a cold egg across your face. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went on like that for weeks: the girls giggling, the guys egging him on. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suggested that I try taking Clomid, a drug meant to stimulate egg production, for a couple of months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I suppose they’ll be wanting sugar and milk on top of everything or they might be banging on my door looking for an egg if you don’t mind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had no present for her apart from the egg curry. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mom usually gives me an egg sandwich to eat, but people hate the smell of egg sandwiches so I eat it in the bathroom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She usually included money, and I was dying to add an egg separator to my baking supplies. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There remained plenty of milk, cheese, and eggs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"I was," she answered, standing over the dragon's eggs that lllyrio had given her when she wed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They serve eggs and salami and some sort of flat-looking bread. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Papa blushed and said, “Well, uh, let’s see, son. It’s kind of like the way hens lay eggs and then biddies hatch out of the eggs.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Today, I fed the chickens, gathered eggs, and plucked the ripest tomatoes before the birds got to them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once again, as when Chapter Eleven’s egg had dropped, I was left alone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Gallons of lard, flour, salt, powdered eggs and powdered milk. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw eggs hatch and produce more caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He acted like he’d never heard tell that eggs were fit to eat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This abandoned library parking lot was like an alternate universe where everyone really cared about raw eggs, and holding hands was a totally acceptable thing to do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had ordered a salad topped with warm lambs’ tongue, a poached egg, and pecorino cheese, something she swore she would not touch but ended up eating the better part of. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad scrambles the eggs, Mom reads the paper. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she combs the emerald bushes, she looks for telltale signs—eggs no bigger than pinpricks, or leaf edges scalloped by the jaws of an inching worm. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A big round gray rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you hand me an egg a little while ago?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyelids and mouth are covered with small white eggs, some already hatching to become maggots, which crawl and disappear into the skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you can pour in your mixed-up eggs and salsa, and very carefully stir them around until the eggs are cooked. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Others, led by an instinct that simulates foresight, merely lay their eggs on a leaf so that a browsing caterpillar will eat them inadvertently. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the story was told to us through the waves of water while we were eggs or whispered to us by the roots of the lotus flowers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening we had the traditional Greek meal followed by a game in which we would toast one another with blood-colored eggs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The glass ceiling above me cracks open like an egg. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I tossed that egg toward the sink and started to get up but then the pain started throbbing in my leg and I sat back down real quick. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place smelled like stale cigarettes and coffee and frying eggs. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Because the chromosome number for a given species is constant, the egg and the sperm, which are to unite to form a new individual, must carry to their union only half the species number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She let go of the egg with a cry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Men brawl over jobs outside the Zollverein gates, and chicken eggs sell for two million reichsmarks apiece, and rheumatic fever stalks Children’s House like a wolf. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t rolling out a new beer keg, he was placing hard-boiled eggs in a wire hamper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m about to say yes, let’s go to Everybody’s Favorite Diner and get egg sandwiches and then walk to school together and all this can be over. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer’s van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They go from egg to full size in just seven weeks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field and arrange straw for their eggs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong. It’s worse. This summer stinks like rotten eggs on a dead skunk.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, after eating sixteen raw eggs, he went directly to Catarino's store, where his monumental size provoked a panic of curiosity among the women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She filled the rest of each glass with beaten egg and milk mixed with a little sugar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her left hand she wore a ring that was as simple as it was ostentatious—a single sapphire, bright and blue and round like an egg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It might not be related to the egg at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

How long could they live on eggs and the scraps left in the pantry? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She, the lone survivor, will start a small paper nest in the spring, lay a few eggs in its cells, and carefully rear a small force of workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A hen hopped off its roost, and Mandy collected three eggs. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed him a plate full of scrambled eggs and bacon. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her knees were speckled with scabs, and her hair was a jumble of short dark curls thick enough to hide Easter eggs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The judge, after the fury of losing the chicken subsided, comforted himself with his roomful of golden eggs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Morning begins with a trip, by car, to the Holiday gas station’s convenience store, where I buy a pop container full of ice and a packet of two hard-boiled eggs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles fried salt pork, warmed up a skillet of beans, fried eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a little too close to the reek of Dad burning chorizo and eggs on the weekend before we found out about the comet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hole-in-the-wall place in Davis Square whose menu had twenty different egg dishes and another twenty pancake varieties. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When they opened the incubators, we got to look in and see hundreds of thousands of white eggs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chett had a wen on his neck the size of a pigeon's egg, and a face red with boils and pimples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, and divided them, too, four apiece. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was going to be ham and eggs that evening, with fried potatoes if you were early and bread and butter if you weren’t. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were allowed one egg apiece and two ounces of candy, and very little milk. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second egg was easier, and by the third one he had no trouble at all—it just slid down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Spencer added, “Yeah, but remember last summer when it got so hot we had to feed the chickens ice water to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Few eggs hatched and almost no young survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony—sticks, droppings, feathers, a broken egg and a dead nestling or two. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after about fifteen minutes, Harry heard the deafening roar that could mean only one thing: Cedric had gotten past his dragon and captured the golden egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And I smile, satisfied, like I did as a small child, after I gave limpiezas to troubled people to clean their spirits with eggs and fresh herbs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In class she had insulted and challenged and vilified him at every turn, egging the Reilly monster to join in the attack. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were several incubators and hatchers where the eggs stayed warm until the chicks Were born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the hash browns were done, she scrambled a few eggs in the pan and spread the cooked food across two plates. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds — and in man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS/HARRY: The second is a disease of the egg, the less fair of those who walk on two legs. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the Easter egg. lust an Easter egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We can’t go on like this much longer,” said Henry at the twins’ apartment that night, as we were smoking cigarettes over uneaten plates of bacon and eggs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Fix me some fried eggs once over light, bacon, toast and honey, and some yellow grits.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll have eggs and rashers on Sunday for breakfast and ham and cabbage and potatoes for dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Under the lid Jon discovered three duck’s eggs fried in drippings, a strip of bacon, two sausages, a blood pudding, and half a loaf ? of bread still warm from the oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother peeled the egg and we divided it, crumbling it carefully from hand to mouth while the others watched us closely, as if expecting immediate results. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it could not explain the copying of genes themselves: How are genes replicated when a cell divides into two cells, or when a sperm or egg is generated? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning I went to the Y cafe next door for a breakfast of grits and eggs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he climbed the cliffs and brought her eggs to eat; occasionally he took her in his arms and leaned against a rock. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or “Hold this bowl while I beat the eggs, sweet.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ate the eggs from the nests until the jungle had no voice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I dream of running on top of giant egg rolls, swimming in steaming egg-drop soup, and battling a giant dragon. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We ate all our chickens weeks ago, and shared the last eggs all around. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He said I’d grow up powerful if I had nothing else but two eggs in a pint of porter every day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I held the eggs while she read the letter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I threw, but the egg still landed in the bushes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cereal and milk, toast, bacon, fried eggs—the smells of breakfast seemed to hang over the raft. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They gave us a sack with provisions: a dozen hard-boiled eggs, a hunk of goat cheese still in its thin cloth casing, a stack of flour tortillas, and water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a hard-boiled egg and Dad peels off the shell. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Other times it would raise itself, uncoiling to look into bushes for eggs and birds on the nest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was finally starting to set by the time we ate dinner, did homework, gathered eggs, and got our clothes ready for school the next day. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They came back with new supplies, including fresh vegetables and fruit and eggs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked an egg and cupped out the yolk and dropped white and shells into the pot, for I know nothing that polishes coffee and makes it shine like that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I woulda liked to have tried those twenty-nine- dollar eggs.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The State Quiz Bowl competition is first thing Wednesday,” she said between bites of eggs Benedict. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about saying we oughta roast that duck and make omelets from the eggs, but sassy as Biddy done got, I figured she might stab me with her fork. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“All right. I’ll collect the eggs. What on earth happened to this basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three rows of six stasis pods line the room and sort of look exactly like...eggs in a carton. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s Easter Sunday and you can have all the eggs you can hold. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We're all lined up like a row of eggs in a carton, moving in time with one another. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I put the number in my brain and tried to keep it there while I chewed my egg roll. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

All they knew was that they were losing meat out of their smokehouses, eggs out of their hens’ nests, and sometimes even whole pans of corn- bread that the womenfolks had set out to cool. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved closer to investigate and found three blue eggs, two of them whole and the third one crushed and leaking yellow liquid, like a broken yolk. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She drank from the edge of the pool, careful to keep the delicate eggs sacs on her abdomen out of the water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the conditioner works its magic, we eat the breakfast feast Pop Pop prepared: T-bone steaks, cheese eggs, grits, coffee, and orange juice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I placed the egg in the chalice, and it fit perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Others believed that even if the egg really did exist, no one was ever going to find it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had quite a large breakfast, for me--orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast and coffee. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Its eggs were unwittingly brought aboard ships in water casks, where they hatched into larvae and grew into adult mosquitoes in seven days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On awakening each one had the juice of forty oranges, eight quarts of coffee, and thirty raw eggs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I swallowed the eggs without chewing and grabbed the glass of juice sitting on the table. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll get started on our breakfast. Bacon and eggs okay with you?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Twig,” I said, “Dari offered to team up with us on the egg project.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hearts and eggs will break, and everything changes, but you keep going anyway. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he looked up at the egg sac. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She climbed the pyre herself to place the eggs around her sun-and-stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They all sat on the warm sand near the wagon and ate bread and butter and cheese, hard-boiled eggs and cookies. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another commercial neighborhood, gangs ransacked every grocery store, littering the streets with squashed fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar and turning the neighborhood into what resembled one giant dump. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She wished she knew where to find a bit of green lettuce, or a small egg, or a taste of cheese, or a corn muffin. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Choked themselves2— thrashed and turned sick, after all the trouble I had plucking their grass and cleaning their muck and not one egg. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

A plate of eggs, a couple sausages, and some fried potatoes later, I felt I could begin to think rationally about my situation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

PS It was pretty exciting to find that glass egg in the nest box. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Muhammad is in front of the kitchen sink, chugging raw eggs from a carton for a new regimen he’s on. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Edd stood over the kettle swishing the eggs about with a spoon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gus handed him another egg, and Isaac hurled it, the egg arcing over the car and smashing against the slow-sloping roof of the house. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

At school, Nicolas used his intelligence to pester others, and whenever he found himself faced with a violent situation he would call in his brother to defend him while he egged him on from behind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I headed outside to feed the animals and gather eggs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Several long, incoherent diatribes from gunters whose quest for the egg had clearly driven them insane. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask for any free egg rolls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later the stitches appear in slow motion, the needle a worm laying tiny eggs that sink into brown cloth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two sits with his legs spread and eats eggs one after another, piling the shells into a tower inside his upturned cap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So your father shoves his excitement into your mother and there’s a spurt and these little germs go up into your mother where there’s an egg and that grows into you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Senor Leal, breathing in, Looks at the sky, Blue as an egg, And feels good. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as another egg dropped, another egg broke, and I counted: Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I saw him at the library yesterday, and he said fresh eggs are his favorite food, but he’s never had migas. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Take, for example, this egg in your hair. Suppose you’d have told the boys who did this, ‘Thank you,’ with a smile. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fraternal twins come from two totally separate eggs, and the differences between us were obvious: I got all the scientific genes, and Harry got all the artistic genes. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, and basket of plums, please,” he mumbled. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glittering, bejeweled, as overdone in his vestments as a Faberge egg, he promenaded around the church, giving us God’s blessing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bod said, “The lady who’s looking after me. She makes horrible food. Hard-boiled egg soup and things.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At the house I deposited his can of water on the porch beside his milk and eggs, confident that I had escaped suspicion. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was sausage, which he could not eat, and scrambled eggs, which were nearly inedible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He swept the puppet over a bale of hay and dropped it onto the wooden egg in the big tin bowl that Vola had painted to look like a nest. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They sit on the stomach like duck eggs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll look after your mama. She’d want you in school,” Grandma said as she fixed me a big plate of fried eggs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

One day last winter I was hunting the eggs. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Nino Carlitos,” I say, flashing a smile and letting my eyes dance, “please be nice and let me pick out some eggs.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sliced a couple of rashers of bacon into the frying pan, and cracked an egg to go with them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a basket full of plastic eggs, all colored blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How about some scrambled eggs?” my mother asked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He noted what it ate, where it slept, where it laid its eggs, and—if he knew— how long it lived. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They ate steak and eggs, fried potatoes and coffee, and then Testa- verde put down his mess tray and took a pad of paper and a pen from his pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the rest of the park stays empty, the boys’ blue and red plastic eggs still scattered all over the grass, waiting for the game to start. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Blimey, this is heavy,” said Lee Jordan, picking up the golden egg, which Harry had left on a table, and weighing it in his hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now Mack counted fifty frogs into a can and walked back to the grocery with Lee and got two dollars’ worth of bacon and eggs and bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it that we pay for those things without blinking but won’t pay an extra dollar for a dozen organic eggs? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He squirmed now as he scooped up some egg yolk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You got to eat them with a spoon if you want egg salad. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So too were the smells of chorizo and scrambled eggs. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And liked among men because he never cheated in a game, egged a stupid fight on, or carried tales, and he left their women alone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to clean up after Sam while Lynn made us breakfast: what we called brown eggs, made by scrambling eggs with shoyu and sugar. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can have a good laugh at my former self, remembering how my sisters and I nervously made our list of prospects: oranges, flour, even eggs! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we stood and faced the cage door, eggs in hand, and prepared for the inevitable. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I can feed you, but I sure can’t sit on the eggs.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The hen gives one egg every day and a half. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

—A myth from Maiana, Gilbert Islands First there was the great cosmic egg. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want that first, or shall I do another bandage? l can do whichever you want. And there’s eggs in the cold cabinet, but I can’t find any baked beans.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flinched as an egg sailed past his nose, but the men holding his elbows kept their backs straight and their boots marching forward. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my hands were cold but the hen began to flap when I reached for her egg. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Harry held his stuffed egg and mashed the yellow with his thumb. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Only, it might take a few weeks to collect them all, and some of the eggs might have a little bit of sand in them.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I tell her that Safer plans to teach me the secret of truly excellent scrambled eggs, she says they sound like really smart bohemians. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tables were covered with barbecue chicken and ribs, rice and beans, egg rolls, and so many other dishes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hatching from their black eggs, they detected the dry, indoor air and the false sun of the lightbulbs, and began to shrivel up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was bustling between the pans and the fridge, bringing out eggs and cheeses, butter and a slab of sliced pink bacon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And if there was a red splotch on an egg, he’d scrape it off. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A rotten egg, my brother called me, to my face. ‘Chinese people don’t do such things,’ he said.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had sent him over to the school to take Leah some boiled eggs for dinner, and he came running back to tell us Anatole was over there looking like he’d seen a ghost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hand was an egg, pale blue with tiny black-and-white speckles. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The man . who stepped through the door was plump, perfumed, powdered, and as hairless as an egg. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You all want a soft-boiled egg?” she asked. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got under way slicing ham, laying out fried chicken, shaking paprika on the deviled eggs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing Anorak's Almanac seemed to indicate was that a familiarity with Halliday’s various obsessions would be essential to finding the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If I was going to find Halliday’s egg, I knew I would eventually have to venture out in the dangerous sectors of the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fish, langosta, mussels, or the eggs from sea urchins, those small, black round sea nnfmnfa with sharp spines that attach themselves to the reefs. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if you have only four eggs, reduce all the other ingredients in the recipe by half. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath were little gray bags, their necks tied with wire, arranged like nest eggs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her palm against the black egg, fingers spread gently across the curve of the shell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Curt did indeed hold her like an egg. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I swallowed and looked at the runny eggs and tried to pretend they looked good. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I can guarantee that it is strong. It’s made out of the toughest material I have. It is also waterproof. The eggs are inside and will be warm and dry.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her brood patch fit gently around the eggs like a soft hot- water bottle. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I decided that eggs and milk can be gotten from animals without hurting or killing them—or so, at least, I thought. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was even a sly old woman with a barrel full of threave eggs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He held his stick in the air and egged on the crowd again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Got back downstairs and Moms was making eggs. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he did; propped up in bed, he ate most of a boiled egg, some more milk, and a bit of toasted biscuit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But as we gather in Regatta Park and help ourselves to scrambled eggs, orange juice, and bagels, I realize something. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was a vast dish of eggs and bacon on the sideboard and tea and coffee. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Good,” she said, and stomped off among the shelves, searching for pickled eggs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The ears were just dough, no sweet filling or egg yolk inside, but my half-sisters were too little to know any better. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t he got to work on the egg’s clue sooner? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Where the turtles lay their eggs,” I said, “and all the kids go swimming.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Almost every time she ate I heard her mutter, “I wish I had a pickled egg.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Simple if you know the trick of it, remarked the vulture as she laid a falcon egg.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

All three of us did a lot of egg poking, and more food got scooted around than ate. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This morning Dad has taken the liberty of delegating tasks through passive-aggressive Post-it notes hidden like Easter eggs all over the house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A salmon egg flew out of his mouth and landed in Maggie’s cleavage. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fried egg and cheese sandwiches on my plate. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I spend half an hour shredding up string-cheese sticks and cracking eggs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to thank everyone who believed in us and our egg,” she said, addressing an invisible audience as if she’d won some grand award and inexplicably putting on a fake British accent. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over my smooth legs, brushed my hands on my soft cheeks, feeling as brand-new as a freshly laid egg. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were shaking, so I stuffed them into my pockets and let Twig pick up the next egg, which was covered in cotton balls: Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She said so to Windy and he told her she looked like she’d like to climb onto the plate and roll around in the eggs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before, she had retrieved an egg from the chicken coop. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We took the eggs in to Mama and she floated them in a bucket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I groped toward the dead kitten, my mother lingered behind me, unseen in the dark, her disembodied voice egging me on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rearrange the ideas: This souffle recipe calls for eight eggs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I buy the eggs, flustered, and on the way back I see him again, leaning against a wall, waiting for me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the shell was covered with tiny scales, and as she turned the egg between her fingers, they shimmered like polished metal in the light of the setting sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My brothers still tease me about the Stilton scrambled eggs I made, and that was weeks ago. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Determined, it seemed, to ignore him, she took in a deep breath and proceeded to crack an egg into a bowl. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Where on a chicken was there an opening big enough for an egg to come out? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinese lady behind the counter said, “No free egg rolls. No more free egg rolls.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been allowed to watch the lab attendants, in gowns and gloves, strip eggs from what they called the breeder fish, anesthetized females. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I asked, setting down the basket of eggs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked the egg into the basket and handed it to him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Children born dark grew up to have their faces treated regularly with a mixture of egg white and lemon juice concentrate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t touch anything sour or pickled, cabbage, fried eggs, or the spicy red sauce. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The female is bigger than the male and may lay up to one hundred eggs at a time. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a can of water from the mountain stream, I boiled three eggs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adele wrote that the hen with the feathers on her feet was sitting on seven eggs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A mountain of hard-boiled eggs that turned into children when my hands touched them, dark-eyed children whose faces begged me for a handful of powdered milk, my clothes, whatever I had. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t really matter if the eggs broke, because we still had so much time to test them. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Little bird egg, don’t you think?” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell it wasn’t Henrietta’s because it wasn’t glass; it was like a fancy organic brown chicken egg that rich people buy at the store. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

For. several moments we all stared at our cold eggs and pancakes and thought about the absurdity of the situation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Art explained that it was the grass diet that gave the eggs their color. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We fished out a pink plastic, octagonal container that was part of a pet shop play set, and we placed the two blue eggs inside. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The egg drop! I remember that! Of course we can pick these things up. What’s your plan?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We’re only still scraping by with what Mrs. Fowles gave us off their boat, plus some eggs, because thank goodness Mama Mwanza brought us over two laying hens after the ants ate up ours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the hens were also awake, scratching, clucking, laying eggs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m goin’ to get you some quilts and things from Nancy’s place; I’ll bring you what grub I can lay hands on—I can always get eggs and a chicken for you. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his neck he wore a medal of honor; in his mouth he held a sac of spider’s eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow, without my realizing it, my obsession with finding Halliday’s Easter egg was gradually being supplanted by my obsession with Art3mis. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The crew raced back and forth from the trees to the ship, bringing meat and eggs, heads of wild cabbage and casks of freshwater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, she took a note to the porter’s lodge at Jordan College and went home to make herself some scrambled eggs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t eat your egg here you’d be carted off to the lunatic asylum or reported to the bishop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But, my friends, if that ancient egg ever breaks, this barn will be untenable.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Mama! Mama!” peeped a tiny, muffled voice from within the egg. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A sharp egg tooth on the top of its beak pierced the inner membrane, and its nostrils pushed into the pocket of air at the top of the egg. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once, when he told the guard who brought him his breakfast that his soft-boiled eggs were really hard-boiled and that he wanted an additional egg, they got into a scuffle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Scrambled eggs and bacon coming up!” she said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“All kin’s a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We’d jus’ live there. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great right fielder A1 Kaline, who stopped in on his way to practice at Tiger Stadium, had autographed his own head shot: “To my pal Milt, great eggs!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Its eggs are cement-coloured and particularly hard-shelled; the young club their way out using their tails, whose spikes are well developed at birth. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost perfectly round, pushing out toward an egg shape slightly, but only slightly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"A chicken that lays eggs of gold?" the judge said, his eyes lighting with greed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lily grates cheese over a bowl of eggs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“How am I supposed to collect eggs with a hole in the basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the door and the sign with the crossed-out egg. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, getting meat and eggs from the Salatins helped these folks solve their dilemma, at least a little. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I missed my room, my bed, Phil’s scrambled eggs, and even Gay’s chicken nuggets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He dieted on eggs and cottage cheese three or four times a year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint her in a new skin tone, the color of freshly laid eggs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy stood where he was, and Joe sat looking at the eggs on his plate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She got the eggs and juice out of the refrigerator and the bread out of the bread box. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In spite of his feigned interest, José Arcadio never understood the powers of the philosopher’s egg, which to him looked like a poorly blown bottle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bits of bread were dipped into a batter made from flour, water, salt and an egg and then fried in deep hot fat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lump feels as big as an egg and hurts more when I touch it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Often, it was a long business to get anything done between us, with Mother laughing and egging each of us on by turn. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twig didn’t respond, just kept cracking invisible eggs over my head and running streams of fingertip yolk through my hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The eggs are so close to hatching, she won’t abandon them.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He would bring Mariam chocolate candy wrapped in foil, a basketful of dyed boiled eggs, cookies. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grandmother Maria cooks plantains, spaghetti, and fresh eggs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Black smoke poured from the dashboard and the whole bus filled with a smell like rotten eggs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing that Mr. Popper got the penguins moved when he did, because Mrs. Popper had been right about the eggs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twig, Dari, and I would be giving a joint presentation about the egg drop, and since Twig was in charge of bringing our S’meggs replica, she was getting a ride with her mom that morning. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“A white woman gets her house egged and the police find a colored boy nearby, that’s all they need to know.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice cracks open the stillness of the morning like a broken egg. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on a small cot, and once I get comfortable, tía Fermina makes little crosses all over my body with an egg, beginning with my head and working her way down to my feet. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Soup and scrambled eggs and hot marmalade pie were yet to come. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wiped up the last of my egg with the bread, Lady Seymour entered, followed by her cat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re about to waste some perfectly good truffles on a bunch of cold eggs,” I say, before hurrying off down the hallway to finish our breakfast chat. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“How about I crack your skull open like a robin’s egg?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I woke up to find toasted bread, brewed tea, and a boiled egg already on the kitchen table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ate one egg with his hands as he flopped into a chair, and then set to work on the rest of my breakfast. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’d ever seen people so interested in an egg yolk—they were clearly impressed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was taboo for my sisters to eat eggs until they were of a certain age because it would interfere with the development of their childbearing organs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Mount Johnson Island as well as in Florida, then, the same situation prevails — there is some occupancy of nests by adults, some production of eggs, but few or no young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Virginia,” she says in a conspiratorial voice, “go to the store- house and tell Carlitos to give you some eggs. He can never say no to you.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken and boiled ham, baked sweet potatoes, peach pickles, big buttermilk biscuits, cookies, cakes, apples, boiled eggs, I don’t know what all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Months of conditioning, jogging, I’ve seen flowers bloom, trees turn green, and birds’ eggs hatch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This will be the first time that they’ll see how bad things are with me—I couldn’t eat that egg downstairs and can’t eat anything now. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sat at our table, and he slid the eggs onto two plates, placing them in front of us and sitting beside me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I heard a fanfare of trumpets, and the egg began to glow. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Later, after they’d eaten a lunch of boiled eggs and potatoes with bread, Tariq napped beneath a tree on the banks of a gurgling stream. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Will, I thought I told you to go get the eggs,” Mama interrupted with a mad sound in her voice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The eggs will draw out his sickness,” she said confidently. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, the scent of raw egg and tangy Play-Doh filled the room. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My nightmares started then, nightmares in which I saw Ade Coker’s charred remains spattered on his dining table, on his daughter’s school uniform, on his baby’s cereal bowl, on his plate of eggs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, waiting for the cook to boil the egg, he was apprehensive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ate the white eggs to give himself strength. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid fall; the leaves kept their bright burnt color well into November, and the sky turned a pale but pretty blue, like a robin’s egg. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the older kids come out with eggs and shaving cream when it’s late, so Tía likes us to be home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The bowl holding the eggs must have overturned into the boiling water. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about some scrambled eggs?” my mother asked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the clutch of eggs and spotted the gold one, gleaming against its cement-colored fellows, residing safely between the dragon’s front legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I gulped down a bit of fried egg and chapati with my tea and raced out the door, just in time to catch the bus crammed with other girls on their way to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Moments later wheeled carts arrive, chock-full of pastries, eggs cooked in every way, grilled meat, petit-pancakes with sugar dust, and bowls of colorful fruit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The shell of the egg is smooth but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t hear one word that’s said over our eggs and sausage. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re such a good egg, Jimmy. I’m the luckiest woman alive.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I felt sick, and the eggs turned funny in my stomach. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While I went to the coop to fetch the eggs I thought to myself, Any kind of books you want? Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go see if the hen laid more eggs!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She rounded a stand of trees, looking for Ivan by the river while she took bites out of the egg. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He pushed the plate of eggs away, picked up his mug of coffee, and looked out the window. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While Doreah brushed her hair until it shone like spun silver, she thought about the moon, and eggs, and dragons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She smelled like rotten eggs, and she was so mad that blue sparks flickered on her armor. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The jaws were strong enough to crush rock, but Ton-Ton lifted the boy as gently as if he were an egg. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked out across the lake and brought the egg to his mouth and closed his eyes and sucked and squeezed the egg at the same time and swallowed as fast as he could. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how to coax milk and gather eggs and bake bread and fashion inventions and build contraptions and grow plants and press cheese and simmer a stew to nourish the mind and the soul. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Only seven weeks after the releases were started, all eggs were infertile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And where were the eggs from which the caterpillars hatched? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Got any eggs?” asked Rooster Jim, all spruced up in mostly clean clothes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You buy your eggs in Malta, not Sicily.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He smiles as he takes another bite of scrambled eggs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was awkward moving under the Cloak tonight, because Harry had the heavy egg under one arm and the map held in front of his nose with the other. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Liza sat with Cathy just enough to come to the conclusion that she was a sensible girl who didn’t talk very much or try to teach her grandmother to suck eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was porridge, honey, milk, boiled eggs, and crisp fried fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around on my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I know that somewhere inside Epsilon-5 is my little brother, hiding my chocolate egg behind his back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Typically, it included fruit juice, hot cereal with milk and butter on it, a roll, cheese, and perhaps smoked fish, along with a boiled egg served in a little cup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the egg was chaos, and floating in chaos was Pan Ku, the Undeveloped, the divine Embryo. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would not be anything fresh except milk and eggs until I could get the garden going again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The eggs of the mantis are secure in little cases of thin parchment attached to the branch of a shrub by the mother who lived her life span with the summer that is gone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She peeled it away and salted the damp, slippery white surface of the egg. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Possessive of her eggs, the hen kept her eyes fixed on us, no matter how fast we moved. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They don’t let colored folks in libraries, baby. Now go fetch some eggs for your mama so I can start this cornbread.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She dropped a plate of eggs at the diner, sliced her finger on the jagged edge, watched a trickle of blood ooze onto the white china. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside there were three eggs, one piece of ham, a wedge of waxed orange cheese, and the quart of milk that came every three days. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The egg and peanut butter in his stomach gurgled unpleasantly, making him queasy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well,” said Abra kindly, “why don’t you say so? Maybe you’re china eggs then, like they put in a nest.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had a smear of breakfast egg on her chin and the blurry eyes of someone who has just stopped crying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His job was to take the shells off four dozen hard-boiled eggs, cut hard cheese into inch cubes and stick a toothpick in each cube, and slice big pickles lengthwise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The semicircle and egg at the end of Cleopatra are a conventional ideogram for “daughter of Isis.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear him peeling the egg, then a faint silvery clink as he picked up the salt spoon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted a spread wing cautiously, disclosing a nest with two white eggs. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The cyclotron evidently proves to be a sort of hen laying golden eggs,” Segre wrote Lawrence fulsomely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then I come back home to Miss Trotter with a basketful of eggs, and as she inspects each dozen, hoping for a had egg to fuss about, she tells her side. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I had too many eggs, so I tossed together a bread pudding.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

On her finger was a golden ring with an emerald the size of a pigeon's egg, on her head a matching tiara. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One day when the tiercel was brooding the eggs and Frightful was looping and gliding, she heard Sam whistle from the mountain that rose above the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Down two flights our neighbor on the second floor has her apartment door open and the smell of eggs and bacon frying in the skillet on the stove makes my stomach growl. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They had left their egg cases scattered about, hanging from the rock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the task’s not till tonight!” said Harry, accidentally spilling scrambled eggs down his front, afraid he had mistaken the time. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Ob cracking eggs into a big plastic bowl and telling Cletus he didn’t believe a word of it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d left enough eggs for us to gather and bring inside. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was swelling rapidly and felt as big as a duck's egg. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of eggs, travels aloft with a single theory about caterpillars. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Templeton, of course, was miserable over the loss of his beloved egg. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A country woman watched Miss Love and spent her egg money on a dust veil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His breakfasts may have been a cardiologist’s nightmare—eggs, sausage, bacon, pastina with a poached egg—but he considered his marinara sauce to be healthy perfection: just garlic, oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Twig, Dari, and I spent the rest of the weekend discussing our egg drop plans—except Wednesday, which is now officially Doris Day, unfortunately. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, when Hannah brought Eva her fried tomatoes and soft scrambled eggs with the white left out for good luck, she mentioned her dream of the wedding in the red dress. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“All they can do, really, is lay unfertilized drone eggs. They’ll fill up the combs with them, and as the workers naturally die off, there are none to replace them.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were done, our brothers would hide twelve eggs for Adria and twelve for me to find on Easter Sunday. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She arranged my sausages to flank the eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On your stone, instead of flowers, I laid down one of the chocolate Easter eggs Celina Aunty had given us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan pulled Theon away from the northmen praying before the tree, to a secluded spot back by the barracks wall, beside a pool of warm mud that stank of rotten eggs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, no, she has not been eating anything, but she ate egg yolk.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We finally got to the competition, and I don’t know if I was expecting some grand ballroom or whatever, but the egg drop was hosted at an old three-story building. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But anyway, I tried to stomach down some eggs while Mom and Dad enjoyed these homemade versions of Egg McMuffins they liked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The next server slapped margarine on two bread squares, which he laid like a pyramid over the eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It took three more underwater renditions of the egg’s song before Harry had it memorized; then he trod water for a while, thinking hard, while Myrtle sat and watched him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She gave me a hug and said, “But unless you find us a dog that can pull the plow, or lay some eggs, or turn itself into bacon, we don’t need it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, not Birgit. She lived on for many years laying her brown eggs." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“People don’t stop eating eggs whenever there’s a fever, do they?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles’s eyes glazed as they roamed over the scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, and orange juice on the table. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I lick the obituaries and the sad memorial poems, the sports pages, the market prices of eggs butter and bacon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

You can make a hard-boiled egg rubbery so it will go into a milk bottle, although getting it out again is more difficult. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning when I got to Grandpa’s, Miss Love had already fried a chicken for our picnic and was serving up fried ham, grits, scrambled eggs, and hot biscuits. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, this would mean do absolutely nothing, but since the egg drop competition is on January 13, Dari, Twig, and I had our work cut out for us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re going to swing by tomorrow, keep an eye on things. No lead on the person who carved that word. But with the eggs, and people just generally riled, and the cut-down...” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They travel down from egg to newborn; a few come in with the sperm, but most are maternal passengers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's egging on the Hitler Youth, and he knows it. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you come with me to the Fair Grounds and lay your eggs there?” pleaded Wilbur. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two days before, they would have insisted that she stay indoors, but now, this morning, they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Michigan, eggs taken from the oviducts of robins dead of DDT poisoning showed concentrations up to 200 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why did they give the dragon's eggs to you? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground into which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calves came from cows and birds hatched from eggs, but insects? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing was said at breakfast, and Eleanor was served coffee and eggs and rolls just like the others. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked in the nest box this morning, there was something that looked like a glass egg. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Twig had drawn a whole stack of egg drop designs and had started an Operation Egg binder, which contained all her notes and was covered in beetle stickers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The judge nodded, barely noticing the boy's departure as he crawled behind the chicken to catch more eggs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His spaceship has a green dome on top that opens up like an Easter egg. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Occamy is aggressive to all who approach it, particularly in defence of its eggs, whose shells are made of the purest, softest silver. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monsters shrieked and flew after their eggs, frantic to save them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I asked as I dipped an egg in turquoise blue. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Peggy placed a plate, knife, fork, spoon, sugar, cream, and bread before him; then she dished up the bacon and eggs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We discussed whether we needed Nelson more, or the eggs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathleen O’Connell at the shop knows Dad is off to England and money will be flowing back so she’s happy to let Mam have credit for tea, milk, sugar, bread, butter and an egg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He disappeared into his tunnel, pushing the goose egg in front of him. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He pictured them in his mind as he picked at his eggs and bacon with a fork, speaking to no one, not even Chuck, who ate silently next to him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

By this time I was sitting in the chair, and she was kneeling on the floor, picking up the pieces of broken glass and egg, gathering them onto the tray. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days ago, Chameleon laid her first egg. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

To take advantage of that, most farmers would buy more chickens to lay more eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I scoop more eggs onto his plate, keeping as far from him as possible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys already ate? I was going to make eggs.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She pressed the precious eggs against her warm brood patch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Somehow her complaints just egged the boys on. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At least there were eggs this morning, and none broken. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She thinks there are thirteen eggs in a dozen.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which, yeah, maybe you could do, but who would seriously want to eat that egg? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gangs of men and boys, egged on by the Sons of Liberty, shouted insults at soldiers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travis went into the kitchen, where his mom had some warm biscuits and gravy, bacon, and eggs ready. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Males and females took turns brooding the eggs and flying to the courthouse park to feast on seeds and bread. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom md ship.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She probably knows how to make eggs ten different ways. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Surely, they would come before he could eat all the eggs at one a day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets me break the eggs into the mix and we make a nice stack of pancakes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I knew about pickled herring but not pickled eggs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The eggs hatch in two to three weeks. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made sure Myrtle had her glasses well covered before hoisting himself out of the bath, wrapping the towel firmly around his waist, and going to retrieve the egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stayed quiet as Rupa and Ma served lentils, rice, spinach, potatoes, and eggs. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stella could almost imagine going out to check her chickens for eggs and finding a big old eagle egg sitting there. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The female Tiphia, finding a beetle grub in the soil, injects a paralyzing fluid and attaches a single egg to the undersurface of the grub. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Worst, I sent two of ’em wobbling back into the water with their brains scrambled like eggs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I will see her every day, and we will go searching together for lovely things—gold-trimmed dishes, and a white cat, and a sugar Easter egg, and a cup of stars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trey cracks the egg into a sizzling skillet. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Above the trees, the enormous sky was the clear blue of robins’ eggs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac reached for another egg, missed wide right, then another, missing low, then another, hitting the back windshield. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had a tantrum whenever he saw any of the peasants giving their children only bread and feeding milk and eggs to the pigs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With loud, pleased clucks, the chicken shook her feathers, moved the egg with her beak, then proudly strutted her way out of the henhouse. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She scoop a egg up and near bout drop it cause she getting the palsy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a dime, you could buy a loaf of bread or a dozen eggs at Carsten’s Grocery just down the street. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You see the cruelty required to produce eggs that can be sold for seventy-nine cents a dozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He stood away from the eggs for a moment, literally stood and turned away so that he could not see them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She combined images of its egg, larval stage, its pupa, and the butterfly or moth that “crept from” the chrysalis or cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You tell your old great-granny: no milk, no eggs,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She clucked as she waited, but no egg came out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the sprawling oak, the goose egg was peeping and wobbling around its nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That was the other thing she’d brought along: the white cloth enfolding her silkworm eggs was nothing other than Desdemona’s wedding corset. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside were three packages, wrapped up in white tissue paper, and clustered together in a tender, intimate way like eggs in a nest. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

What made me keep on climbing in face of such discouragement, I don’t know, but I did, and that noon I had crow eggs and wild salad for lunch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In large bowl, whisk together butter, Elmer's Glue, paint thinner, and eggs. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am, sitting on the graying floor of this freezing metal kitchen, listening to a bunch of complaints from girls who don’t know how to boil an egg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It makes more sense. You can move the old eggs out of the way and clear the space for the next drop.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Peeves?” said Snape softly, staring at the egg in Filch’s hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As Desdemona cracks her egg against Lefty’s, my parents shuck off a strict minimum of clothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The pages were glued on with wood paste and randomly selected: a wall might sport an ad for medicine next to an article on the price of eggs. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shrimp and noodles swimming in sauce and deep-fried egg rolls had taken their toll on us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of such irrelevant details—the pewter plates, the glorious eggs—is to create what Roland Barthes called ‘the reality effect’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hand her the eggs and take a step back, in case she tries to smack me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can a bar mitzvah be the right path for this kid who grew up going to church, hunting Easter eggs, and writing letters to Santa? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know that cupcakes have eggs in them?” he asked me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sluggers could be blasting me with deadly radiation or stuffing me hill of slugger eggs just to see what happens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“All righty, Miss Know-It-All,” Tamika said, and smirked, “what came first—the chicken or the chicken egg?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, I already had plans for my egg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like winning the lottery, finding Halliday’s Easter egg became a popular fantasy among adults and children alike. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“That egg is Potter’s egg. That piece of parchment belongs to Potter. I have seen it before, I recognize it! Potter is here! Potter, in his Invisibility Cloak!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every time he’d stayed with her, her fridge had held barely anything more than an egg and half an avocado. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been stabbing his eggs with his fork, but stopped suddenly, as if eating was getting in the way of thinking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“An egg or two a day if you keep her well fed,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They chattered and squeaked, egging him on, and Percy got the sinking suspicion the crew was used to this sort of entertainment. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cutting into her egg with a fork, Ma said, “We’ll see.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had my dual obsessions with the egg and Art3mis finally driven me completely insane? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The eggs didn’t look anything like the way my mom made them. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it is uncomfortable. How long does it take a goose egg to hatch?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Quickly he scaled the tree to the artificial scrape and, fending off Frightful with one arm, he gently lay the eggs in the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Dari’s being weird,” she said, peeking outside as she held the egg out, ready to drop it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Think of all the alligators and snakes, not to mention heat worse than we had here, and people had been known to fry not just eggs but bacon and sausage on South Carolina sidewalks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Polish girl’s pink hat bobbed like a candy egg amidst hundreds of gray faces all so tired and drawn, they looked like boiled meat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I remember Jody, my best and only girlfriend at college in my freshman year, making me scrambled eggs at her house one morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A tiny piece of egg flew off it and splattered my jacket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the full-month ceremony my husband had found two eggs, which we dyed red by boiling them with a flag. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana had dumped two fried eggs, three strips of bacon, and hash browns at the bottom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had a melon under one arm and a sack of eggs and potatoes in the other hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the restaurant they were seated side by side at a round table with a revolving platter of spareribs and egg rolls and chicken wings, which, they concurred, all tasted the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sam took the eggs up to the house and came back, and we fed the stock and watered them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring me coffee, a boiled egg, toast, marmalade, and a tangerine,” he said to the waiter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You want it,” Troy said, leaning close enough for me to smell his morning scrambled eggs, holding the laptop in his right hand and wiggling it, “take it from me.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They gasped at the thin golden crown that settled in his black curls like eggs in a thrush’s nest. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tell Miss Leefolt ever time she have the bridge club and she make me do them eggs anyways. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I made a scrape—an open box with a narrow strip of wood to keep the eggs from rolling out. I’ll put sand on the bottom.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He chewed his bacon and eggs while some remote part of his mind considered in amazement how different the girl had seemed in the movie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one person can be the first to find the egg and win the prize,” he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They have their breakfast in aluminum take-out trays that contain eggs, sausages, and potatoes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a pot of fresh coffee, some toast, and scrambled a couple of eggs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of us gave him some of our share of eggs and meat, and so he has been eating well for days. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mam says,This egg is for your father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sefia twisted a couple of locks of hair in her fingers and looked to the book, where it lay in the nest of rope like an egg, ready to hatch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The restaurant looked warm and cheerful, its yellow light spilling out like a runny egg yolk into the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had the eggs, the rest of the ham, the corn cakes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What treasure? Lots of geese on Penikese but none of them laying golden eggs.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like an egg whose yolk had been broken and stirred just once. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s shirt was wrinkled and stained with sweat under the arms, and Stella could see bits of the egg he must have had for breakfast in his beard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My dad cracks open the eggs, pours the milk and pancake mix. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He closed the egg, shook it vigorously, and opened it again to see if the sound had changed, but it hadn’t. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie Valentine had ordered his chickens thinking they were a special breed that laid blue eggs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Where did you get it, Hagrid?” said Ron, crouching over the fire to get a closer look at the egg. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If nothing happened to your ankle you must have an egg under your skin it’s sticking up so much. Here’s another egg for your other leg.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning out his stomach with emetics, she wrapped him in hot blankets and fed him egg whites for two days until his harrowed body recovered its normal temperature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I am shaky, my brain fried like that egg in the Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercial. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the potatoes are cooking, I mix eggs, tomatoes, a little onion, a sprinkle of salt, and black pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This led to the doctrine of preformationism: the adult existed fully formed within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was only two blocks down from where we’d seen Red egging that house last Halloween. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed him the egg and the pickle spears. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get your older brothers married before we worry about you,” Marina said idly as she spooned more boiled eggs out of the cold water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He slept in a good house on Mars Avenue, rose mornings at nine, bathed, and idled to town for ham and eggs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And cheese, and scrambled eggs with horseradish! Do not put your hands on me!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I forgot to tell you before, but I wanted you to know I’ve been putting every single egg in the fridge every day, especially now that I know how important it is. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the broken egg was buried, the air cleared and the barn smelled good again. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She cracked a couple of eggs into a yellow bowl and started whisking in milk, then cornmeal. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had trouble sitting still, and he did not like eggs, and he did not want nutcakes either, and he liked to throw the things he didn’t like, to be sure everyone knew. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He found a can of cola and handed it to her before taking out a tray of eggs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaoler's eyes had gone big as boiled eggs as he yanked open the drawstring and beheld the glint of gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He took the family to a picnic of the Society of Chinese Engineers — something he’d always avoided before — and ate tea eggs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub my eyes sleepily, clicking on another video, my half-eaten tray of eggs and bacon sitting cold on the table next to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My father was eating with his fingers, dabbing the ends of his bacon into the egg yolks with one hand, while holding the newspaper with the other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted something nice because there was still a chance my brain looked more like scrambled eggs than a honeycomb. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sperm from the father, egg from—and carried by—a woman who seemed a suitable match. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the butter for the week and half the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The last egg was inside a big basket of chocolate rabbits and yellow marshmallow chicks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have tea and boxty and boiled eggs and we all fall asleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Fresh porgies, dipped in egg, a little cornmeal and flour, and fried in a big pot of hot grease till they were golden brown and crispy on the edges. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The pods had swelled until they were the size of hen’s eggs and ready for harvest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shallots and mushrooms and hard-boiled eggs and bechamel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry lowered the egg beneath the foamy surface and opened it. . . and this time, it did not wail. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As if someone had shaken pepper over fried eggs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know that whole story, just that one time when Gramps was cussing up a storm, Gram ran off with the man who regularly bought eggs from Gramps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My children and I will take care of the animals. Tzipporah is wonderful about collecting eggs. A real specialist. And Reuven knows just when to shoo them off the nest.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had only a hard-boiled egg on the train, but I was here under his hospitality and I didn’t feel right asking for food so soon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fragments of the glass marbles that she saw looked like the remains of eggshells one finds beneath trees in springtime: like empty, broken robin’s eggs, or even more delicate—wren’s eggs, perhaps. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The farmer’s wife who sells me milk asks how two girls could possibly drink so much, and I get almost the same question from the grocer who sells me the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first occurs when sperm and eggs are generated for reproduction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Crying fit to kill themselves! Why, a starling in the egg’s got more sense. Look at them!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The only sounds in the kitchen belonged to the eggs frying on the stove and Nana whistling the Bunker theme song. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tyrion peeled the cracked shell away from his egg and took a bite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were frogs’ legs, eggs, and turtle soup on my table. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has offered to share what I smell: sardines, dried durian, salted eggs, toasted sesame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They egged him on to “do something nutty.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The bacon grease was still hot, and the eggs began frying up pretty quick. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some of Mama’s oldest clothes were still in the closet, and one or two of Tata's jackets, but her jewelry was missing, along with my grandmother’s gilded egg that opened like a box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up the creamer and poured some into her coffee mug, which had the restaurant’s logo: an illustration of a cracked egg with a smiley face. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He knows immigrants drink from the trough, although the water smells like rotten eggs and is laced with green scum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Why go sit on a bike for hours, then go eat pancakes and sausage and eggs and bacon and everything on a menu? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, stop picking at me. How many eggs?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandpa used to say to be careful with eggs and words, because neither can ever be fixed. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My search for the egg required constant travel, and GSS kept raising their teleportation fares. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I pushed my plate of fried eggs away from me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A horrible smell filled his nostrils, like eggs and milk gone rotten. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In a minute, sausage, eggs, potatoes, bread, juice, and hot chocolate appear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall have some coffee, and eggs and bacon. What about you?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the humans’ farm, there were eggs in the chicken coop. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I tear into the pancakes with the warm syrup, making sure to drip some on my eggs too. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like the planet Saturn and the teacher at school said it was a very unusual way to draw an egg. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly older heads than this boy’s had egged him on to this wretched, scurvy trick, but Mr. Lyte had no wish to go into the matter beyond the recovery of his own property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edd cut three thick slices off a stale round of oat bread, stacked them on a wooden platter, covered them with bacon and bacon drippings, and filled a bowl with hard-cooked eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The time of year being autumn, the spider had left egg cases in its web, preparing for its own cycle of replication. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be able to get a gig in Antarctica, keeping the eggs warm for the penguin dads, but that’s about it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dad says, What would a man be doing with a whole egg to himself? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or I forget about my bottles of egg yolk and water, which go bad and stink up the cellar with a smell like sulfur. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was also where I conducted my ongoing quest to find Halliday’s Easter egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Women used to carry such eggs between their breasts, to incubate them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And I bake every Saturday, and Shad brings fish on Friday, and they’s a pork barrel full of meal, and we float eggs in a crock of vinegar...” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wait next door for Mr. Hannon to come out with his bicycle and there’s a lovely smell of rashers and eggs coming through the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After Gay read Horton Hatches the Egg, we both were quiet as we contemplated how the mother bird left the elephant to sit on her egg. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

All winter Wilbur watched over Charlotte’s egg sac as though he were guarding his own children. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Familiar noises surround me: street vendors call out to passersby, selling boiled goose eggs and fried dough and hot dogs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Ever since Rab had taken her home and left Johnny to eat six fried eggs by himself, he had felt differently about Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, but no good mother will let us near her eggs.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

After a while I got hungry and I ate my egg sandwich. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not have long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough chickens to lay fresh eggs for every officer in the squadron at five cents apiece from the mess fund,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Now I really don’t understand. Why don’t you sell your mess halls the eggs for seven cents apiece instead of for five cents apiece?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

School was canceled while they aired out the building that day, but it still smelled like rotten eggs for an entire week. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zafoona had surprised them by getting up early that morning and making them breakfast—Fadi’s favorite of a fried egg and peanut butter on toasted Afghan bread. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I open the door to the fridge: milk, butter, mayonnaise, bread, eggs, hot dogs. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

What I really want is this meal called “The Hobo,” which is made of eggs, hash browns, cheese, and bacon—practically everything I love—but it’s $7.99. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sun had been up for about an hour, and we’d already gathered the eggs, fed the chickens, had breakfast, and been waiting at the bus stop for over ten minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We have only a month until the egg drop competition—less, if you consider the holidays—so we need to get going with testing our eggs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Over the eggs, I ask her, “Where did Gale go?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their eggs are the size of a man’s head, their hatchlings notoriously bloodthirsty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A silver platter zoomed toward her and hit the wall to her left, splattering scrambled eggs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To Alyce it sounded all the more frightening and strange, as if a goose had spoken, or an egg, or the dung heap in the yard. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face, as he stepped into the light, was round and thick, and her eyes were like two immense eggs stuck into a white mess of bread dough. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents never did find out about those blue eggs, just as they never knew about the turtle we found on the road one day, after a car had crushed it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Only, Rule #1 of Twig’s help: Stop calling it “the whole egg thing.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Conor continued to eat, taking the smallest bites of egg possible. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of Wynn cooking up a heap of bacon and eggs wafted through the air when I entered the kitchen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then I cooked breakfast—eggs, canned ham, and some pan biscuits. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

People took note of which states he visited, which diner he showed up at for breakfast, what kind of meat he ordered to go with his eggs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I thought, If he throws this egg, I won’t know what to do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Olanna sat on a stool and carefully avoided looking at the cockroach eggs, smooth black capsules, lodged in all corners of the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Undeterred by his weight she fed the hens, gathered eggs, fetched water, then sat at the table stringing dried mushrooms. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, on his way to school, Jake noticed a long line snaking out of the corner bodega, a small grocery and convenience store where people bought their coffee, bagels, and egg sandwiches. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“We like our milk and eggs and butter.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the middle cushion of the middle sofa is an egg cup, five times life-sized, with a broken eggshell in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under her arm Desdemona also carried her silkworm box containing a few hundred silkworm eggs wrapped in a white cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now the vague unease Jinjoo had been feeling roiled in the pit of her stomach, as if she’d eaten too many boiled eggs. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I shake hot sauce on my eggs and pass Daddy the bottle. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You’ve smelled rotten eggs? That’s sulfur dioxide, released from the chemical reaction of rotting organic material. This is going to stink just like that.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ma would order the eggs and English muffin, Spoony always got the French toast, and me and Dad both got pancakes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I broke two eggs into the frying pan. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But Mam shakes her head and I wonder how she can say no to a soft-boiled egg when there’s nothing in the world like it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s perfect at any temperature, and the egg, onion, and potato fill you up after one slice. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are still nine eggs to break into the bowl. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the eggs are done, Dad and I mash everything together with mayonnaise and mustard. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, Grandma! I know how to make ramen with an egg. And I can make us grilled cheese sandwiches. But best of all, I can order food on my phone!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s some nerve he’s showing — and — yes, he’s got the egg!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop’s made a spread: biscuits and gravy, bacon, eggs, and sweet tea. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hot-water corn bread—cornmeal, water, flour, sometimes an egg—plopped into sizzling grease. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You had to use Passover dishes and we had a big seder, where the family sat down and the table was set with matzoh and parsley, boiled eggs and other traditional Jewish food. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tradition back then of serving every Marine a T-bone steak, eggs and biscuits with lots of gravy, and as much coffee as he could drink before getting onto his landing craft. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw birds guarding their eggs like treasures until the chicks finally hatched. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cafe served refried beans with my eggs instead of grits like they did back in Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll carry you to where you want to bury the egg,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He found that baby geese, when they hatch from their eggs, learn to follow the first moving object they see. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt let down and helpless, packed like a bird’s egg in the cotton of his father’s ambition for him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they threw eggs and began slaughtering our stock. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the farm store, Joel sells Polyface meat and eggs at farmers markets in the Washington, D.C., area. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Since we'll be on Everest on Easter, I brought four wrapped chocolate eggs. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to bother my parents because they have enough to worry about, but I’m so hungry and tired of eating nothing but tortillas and eggs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The mother laid two speckled eggs which she and her mate took turns sitting on. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She burst up from the stairwell, waving her crumpled presentation notes over her head, and when she saw Dari’s egg border, she squealed and tackle-hugged him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He did not eat meat, milk, or eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was poking at the scrambled eggs on his plate and listening to the radio buzzing with old-school music. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He retrieved the egg from the bottom of the bath, climbed out, dried himself, and pulled on his pajamas and dressing gown again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m used to it. I got my eggs from Agnes Taylor for years.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Around sunup, she flies off and leaves her eggs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had drained the eggs and refilled the eggshells with liquor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“She said she’s not letting us have cereal before school this year. It has to be oatmeal or eggs or something like that.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. Odilia just came over to pick up some money for eggs,” Mamá assured her boss, quickly switching to English. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Zack is sitting at the kitchen table eating scrambled eggs when I walk in the back door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Where else would I gather the water spinach and muck-eating fish for your dinner or the duck eggs and frog spawn for your breakfast? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Did Cecilia really think that in this situation they could sit together and still have an appetite for scrambled eggs? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Everybody poor. Everybody hungry. I give free egg roll. Feel sony. Then everyone come for free egg roll.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his suit pocket and gave me a small plastic egg filled with cinnamon hearts. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If I found a nest of nightingale eggs or chicks, I was not to disturb it or the mother would abandon her roost and the chicks would die. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Red roared, and pressed another egg into my hands, so hard this time that it broke. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they too sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald fixed Angel a scrambled egg and gave her some juice. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We moved one hundred seven eggs," she said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four letters to Harry found their way into the house, rolled up and hidden inside each of the two dozen eggs that their very confused milkman had handed Aunt Petunia through the living room window. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I never missed the annual Easter egg hunt held at Kelly Ingram Park or vacation Bible school, which was held for two weeks every summer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a market down in Irishtown where the farmers come on Saturdays with their vegetables, hens, eggs, butter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe we wouldn’t be able to test the eggs at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And buttermilk biscuits and fried eggs over easy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama asked the woman as she packed her eggs up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So is the milk or eggs that come from grass-fed animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nest, eggs, and hens were all one package, wrapped in a vivid, slender twine of brilliant green. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A farmer from whom I bought eggs and home-smoked bacon told me of the advantages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We milked first—since cows don’t celebrate Christmas—and then came in to a breakfast of eggs and grapefruit and cherry babka and hot tea. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am,” she said, scooting the pot with the eggs away from the stove’s heat. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

So we went to pick up eggs, and Dad got distracted pretty fast, asking all these questions about the egg drop, etc., etc., etc. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“One dude had a plate of green eggs, another had a slice of ham?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Daniela's eyes are a little sunken, like two finch's eggs in a nest, and her nose hooks left. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She thought about making an egg sandwich to go with the other biscuit, but gave it up. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We gladly rested in the shade while she unpacked hard-boiled eggs and made sandwiches for us. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s save them so the babies can hatch,” I said, reaching down to pick up one of the good blue eggs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the egg drop competition, while Dad prepared for his afternoon work sessions, I stood outside his and Mom’s bedroom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I added hard-boiled eggs and apples and dill pickle slices. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He slices the egg five ways and gives each of us a bit to put on our bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I brought groceries from the store; twice he came to the back door as I was leaving the eggs and asked for specific things—he had run out of salt; he needed cooking oil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We once fought about an egg yolk, for instance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The menu board itself still offered eggs, hash browns, seven kinds of pie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We now know that about eight such chemicals—mostly proteins—are made by the fly during the development of the egg and deposited asymmetrically in the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At two, having eaten a lunch of fried eggs and Jerusalem artichokes, canned pears and bread spread with clover honey, he went out to change the oil in his tractor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jimmy Papanikolas holds his egg out, passive, as Chapter Eleven rams his egg against it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how ihany of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It’s New Year’s Eve and Mami is making a big flan with a dozen eggs for a midnight treat. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Where did the fresh egg come from ?” Major de Coverley demanded. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

While the woman dug around in the cupboards for a tray, Roza slipped the bacon and egg to the dog. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Art introduced himself and presented the chef with a dozen eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I load a plate with eggs, sausages, batter cakes covered in thick orange preserves, slices of pale purple melon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I watched it being turned into meat, milk, and eggs by cows and chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She would never be quite certain, but the more time passed, the less probable it seemed that she could move elsewhere, and it became a question of chickens and eggs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shorty pours the lye over them, cracks two raw eggs into the mix, and stirs it all up with a wooden paddle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the eggs kept breaking. We probably need help.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When that organism generated sperm or eggs, the alleles were split up again—one was passed to the sperm, and one to the egg, only to become combined in the next generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She grins and takes her final bite of egg. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He showed her one spider with four sacks of eggs swinging right over his table where he could watch her while he ate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I ate whatever Mama put in front of me—grits or eggs, I don’t even remember. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The golden egg fell through the tapestry at the bottom of the staircase, burst open, and began wailing loudly in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we checked on the eggs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Lori came out, she was mute and bald as an egg for the first three years of her fife. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Richardson scraped the remnants of egg noodles from the next plate into the disposal and handed it over. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And also all the eggs Twig and I had broken. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Several things have fallen from the bags: an egg, an onion, an apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter grabbed his basket of eggs and went back over to kiss Big Ma, who wiped his kiss away like she’d been buzzed by a fly. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Lunch turned out to be a massive affair, with a thick soup, fresh rye bread, onion rolls, bagels, cream cheese, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, and chocolate pudding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Acromantula eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods By the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, meaning that severe penalties are attached to their importation or sale. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would’ve thought you were too refined for some hot sauce on your eggs.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I buy eggs, cheese, butter, and half a chicken. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she finished eating the egg, she hugged her father and said, “Thank you.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Large residues of DDT and other hydrocarbons have been found whenever looked for in the eggs of birds subjected to these chemicals, either experimentally or in the wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I reverse the order. For Bryan's sake. As a tribute to the Great Commoner. First the chicken; then the egg." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Correct: To crack an egg properly, you must leave the yolk intact. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He therefore started taking the egg out of his trunk every time he went up to the dormitory, opening it, and listening intently, hoping that this time it would make some sense. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed all that doubt out of my head, and once Dari was ready for us, I picked up S’meggs, the s’mores-themed egg. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Frank asks, pushing against the eggs with his spatula. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This looks like a good one,” Milton says, choosing his own egg. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Milo stood his ground, taking shelter behind the hard-boiled egg raised protectively before his face like a magic charm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I could not remember the last time I had tasted bacon and eggs, and I was ravenous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m delighted that the egg never hatched,” she gabbled. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Before she could attack him, an egg came flying through the air and hit her on the side of her head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the size of a robin’s egg, and Bod stared into the stone wondering if there were things moving in its heart, his eyes and soul deep in the crimson world. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Salad bar in the center. Specialty foods on the right. It changes every day. Looks like Asian food today. Probably soggy egg rolls and questionable sushi.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She took one egg out and handed it to me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little Korean Fire sat in the corner, wrapped in a big, happy Christmas bow, and I threw an egg at that one, too, but I missed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What I would do is to wave my fork over the eggs until all the bugs flew away, then grab a forkful before they came back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between stops, Art told me that it was the eggs that got him his new customers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, trustful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In her sticky hands dripped a greeny-red fruit the shape of a strange egg. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We watched our egg break in slow motion. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She the hostess so she got to pick up her eggs last. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maria was the first to document the life stages of this unusual amphibian, which attaches its eggs to its back. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had had an egg sandwich for breakfast, I could tell. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You go on back to sleep if you want, Ob. I’ll put some coffee on the stove. And I’ll fix you some eggs and cocoa when you get up.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

No pork, either—no pork chops with potato salad, no bacon and eggs, forget all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter. Fresh bread, if you please, not fried. You may find the wildling as well. Tell him that I must speak with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I opened my purse, meek, and Mrs. Diamant stared down at the squashed butter and the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she came around the stove, she had put birthday candles into the eggs, the toast, the grits, and lit them all. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam’s mom always makes food just right: the pancakes are the size of silver dollars, the eggs are soft-scrambled, the bacon crispy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You can keep your egg!” he said as he trotted toward the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After fried eggs and coffee, they said their goodbyes to the others and headed off through the still-dark streets of Brooklyn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Pour whatever leftover salsa you have into the eggs and mix it all up with a fork. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The dried egg yolk, fried in red palm oil, looked soggy and unnervingly bright-colored on the plate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pycelle moved so slowly that Tyrion had time to fin-ish his egg and taste the plums—overcooked and watery, to his taste—before the sound of wings prompted him to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Here my father ran his hand along the length of a sleeping python as he hunted for morning eggs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She churned her fists like an egg- beater. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

For all of that, the eggs were cold, but we ate them, along with the buttered toast and orange slices. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Er, no, actually, too many eggs could increase your cholesterol, Baba.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This clan, having put their own small farm to bed for the winter in the Province of Quebec, came over the line to make a small nest egg. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig’s eyebrows pinched as she noticed my mood shift for the first time, but she stepped back and handed me the egg. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I sat there eating the piece of brown toast while she went into the bathroom and flushed the handful of egg, which could not be salvaged, down the toilet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom and I used to make Easter egg animals. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Baba abandons his egg halfway to his mouth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And Con could not remember if he had ever seen a sky so blue: robin’s egg blue, smooth as glossy porcelain, untouched by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Have you ever had the science of exactly what happens during the process of making scrambled eggs explained to you, in great detail? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some natives in the world ate grasshoppers and ants and if they could do that he could get a raw egg down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when it seems we might have caught a break, there’s a cracking sound, like an egg hitting the side of a bowl but magnified a thousand times. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was so pretty, so elaborately basket-woven among hen and egg, we did not at first understand what we saw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, the gonads,” adds Coach, “where it breeds eggs.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since Mr. Popper knew that penguins lay only two eggs a season, he was astonished when, a little later, the third egg was found under Greta. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lift a box of highlighters, all shaped like boiled eggs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And so he made her eggs, and played with Buchi in the living room downstairs, and after Buchi fell asleep, he read the newspapers, all the time his head furred with that sadness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She cracked the eggs in a pot, whipped them with a fork, dipped in four slices of white bread, and laid them out in the frying pan on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

To me, Gram said, ‘Your grandfather nearly killed the egg man over that letter.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Boiled water will suffice. An egg and a bite of bacon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel passed a big platter of delicious deviled eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This time she was long at labor and when Wang Lung came home at evening he found his father standing at the door and laughing and saying, “An egg with a double yolk this time!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Zeus liberated all living things from an egg. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At first the smell was recognizable, part of the organic realm of bad eggs and manure. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then I was sitting on the dirt, not even caring about all that egg yolk, and then Dad was next to me, because he didn’t care about the yolk, either. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Isaac reached over and found an egg himself from the carton Gus cradled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If the work was this hard, one dollar for an egg seemed reasonable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He turned to me and said, “Still have about six minutes. Maybe five. Let’s grab all the hens we can. No time for the eggs.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She sounded even meaner than when she’d said “No free egg rolls.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eggs had broken on the floor, there was orange juice and shattered glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubted Mrs. could cook like Big Ma, but I knew she could scramble some eggs and fry bacon without burning them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

What if I just dropped the egg in some grass and ran into the woods? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge was “at a tavern called the Rising Sun,” getting a report from the egg seller when he was warned that British cavalry were nearby. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you look at that! Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! Well, this is going to shorten the odds on Mr. Potter!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s just exactly what we needed. They will go perfect with the egg salad sandwiches.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I bought a hot dog on the street, I'd have to make up that money by eating eggs for dinner or walking fifty blocks to the library rather than taking the subway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako stared at the food for a moment, then fell upon it and didn’t bother with the fork, just picked up the eggs in her hand and shoved them into her mouth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Through lips as white and brittle as a swallow’s egg, Jacob said, “I suppose someone was careless with their cooking fire.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We had eggs from our many chickens all year round. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon it was impossible to find a single egg mass, sterile or otherwise. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, a material that can literally fry an egg with radiation is kind of dangerous. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be the egg,” he says, with a single nod. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Three minutes, who’s up?” he announced, upending an extraordinary ormolu-gilt hourglass and displaying a boiled egg with a pair of silver sugar tongs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Identical twins—but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old vivip-arous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to take a delicious forkful of egg, Major Mar ais said, “No, Mandela, that is against the orders of your physician,” and he reached over to take the tray. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had avoided talking about it, my mind went to the long chain from manure to grass to cow to grubs to chicken to eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fried bread, fried eggs, blood sausages, and barley porridge made up the meal, washed down with thin yellow beer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I make the egg rounds, starting with ole Miss Walter first cause she the elder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take two eggs over light, bacon, a cup of coffee, and hash browns.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The egg and hot sauce has made it glow like yellow, orange, and red finger paint. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rhonda appeared with a tray of wheat toast, eggs, and fruit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hugh dug something from his pocket and held it up: a peculiar chicken egg. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sage is allergic to eggs, dummy. That’s why there’s a sign on the door.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know anything about roosters and eggs but it sounded true. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If gunters around the world don’t join forces to stop the Sixers, they will reach the egg and win the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She scoops hers out, and now we’re both sitting there egg in spoon, spoon in hand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She opens the box of pancake mix, adds milk and egg, stirs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Killdeer ran around in all the fields, screeching, whistling, trying to lead you away from their eggs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let out a whoop as I soar over the plain, the music egging me on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was not until she began laying her eggs into the hole that Toomer rose, and with his strangely graceful limp, made his way down to the turtle. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the part nearer the verb is singular, the verb is singular: Neither the eggs nor the milk was fresh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The mom is fidgety like a hen hatching eggs.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t teasing me or egging me on. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can make a cheese sandwich. I can make a soft-boiled egg.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

After checking on the chickens and collecting eggs each morning, it was to be my job to milk the cows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would go down in the morning and milk, get the eggs, feed the chickens, work the garden, pick the vegetables. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pax ate steadily, until finally, seven eggs swelling his shrunken belly taut, he dropped to the sandy apron in front of the dens and closed his eyes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I could not remember seeing an egg in my smuggling searches, but then I hadn’t been looking for eggs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Angela took the eggs and a package of sausages and paid for them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great Ceremony of the Celebration of the Return to Egypt has begun!” she chanted, and all four Egyptians prostrated themselves before the egg crate and the birdbath. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method involved injecting a solution of beef broth, milk, whiskey, egg yolks, and opium into his rectum. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad and I talked a whole lot about the egg drop list, but we weren’t talking, not really. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As the sentence is written, the yolk is the one cracking the egg. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had just knotted the last button when Jojo returned, triumphant, with the egg basket filled with feathers and pinecones. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A door with glass in a big egg shape. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On top of his overcoat, the smock made him look like a dinosaur egg about to hatch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the flour and oil she got from trading eggs, Miss Maggie baked bread that made me happier than if I’d had cake, which I tasted only once in a blue moon. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The slightly meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom’s hollow stalk. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If Halliday hadn’t set up the Third Gate to require three keys...the Sixers might have already found the egg by now.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Something like French toast, if we had any eggs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he discovered that if he hatched mallard duck eggs, the ducklings refused to follow him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a tasty breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast, made by Mom, and tea and hot cocoa with marshmallows, made by Dad, I headed back to my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pheasants fed quantities too small to kill them nevertheless laid few eggs, and the chicks that hatched soon died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were eggs in plenty not far off, in the hen house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With one hand she cracked the eggs into a bowl; with the .other she whisked them and whirled them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Hugo grabs a knife, hatchets off the tops of his eggs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They found her on the carpet, crawling toward her dragon eggs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We sit on chairs with red velvet seats and eat meat loaf with an egg cooked into the middle, chicken croquettes, black beans and white rice, fried plantains, and a salad with avocados. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But inside there are stories, there are biscuits and grits and eggs, the fire in the potbellied stove already filling the house with warmth. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Aristotle had recast heredity as the flow of information—a river of code moving from egg to the embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kaylee says, gobbling down two bites of eggs and a swig of juice. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard mice in the kitchen. I’m afraid there will be white of egg on the boys’ pillows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One storeroom offered potted hare, haunch of deer in honey, pickled cabbage, pickled beets, pickled onions, pickled eggs, and pickled herring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a few days she would have to drop everything and build the beautiful little sac that would hold her eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I weeded our garden, sold eggs from our coop, took odd jobs when I could find them, did every chore they asked of me, and then some. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We could eat some and keep some for the eggs, as long as we could hold out without eating those, too. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If someone put a plane at my disposal, I could fly down there once a week in a squadron plane and bring back all the fresh eggs we need,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It is no longer necessary to guess about the storage of insecticides in the eggs of birds, which obviously lend themselves to this kind of observation more readily than the mammalian ovum. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The vitality which the snail’s eggs possess surpasses belief. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

With the eggs carefully tucked in my basket, I moved on to Mr. Owens’s stall. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We caught and cooked some turtles and ate their flesh and their eggs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sexers worked for twelve hours in a row, and then they slept while a new batch of eggs warmed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a grocery store, where, per Augustus’s instruction, I bought a dozen eggs while he and Isaac waited in the car. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It comes in an egg that looks so real I’m half expecting to find a yolk inside. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some attach their eggs to a caterpillar by means of a sticky solution; on hatching, the larval parasite bores through the skin of the host. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Yoshoto asked me, in English—and her accent was unexpectedly charming—if I would prefer an egg, but I said, “Non, non, madame—merci!” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Pickled eggs are purple,” she mumbled through the mush in her mouth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She makes me eggs and toast and sits there until I’ve eaten it all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Day 1: two hardboiled eggs, one steak, one tomato, spinach, lettuce with lemon and olive oil. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He danced around, trying to escape her swinging arms as the others egged him on. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For breakfast we had scrambled eggs or Cream of Wheat with globs of butter and sugar. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

For breakfast we had waffles and bacon and eggs, and her mom looked at me curiously when I said, “But where’s the rice?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

This egg sac is my great work—the finest thing I have ever made.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They spurted hundreds of scattered bullets before dark balls rolled out from underneath, as if the planes were laying large eggs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And long-legged Joon ran off on an emergency fetch, to get replacement eggs from the chickens. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere they saw beautiful bronze daggers for sale, dried squids and carved onyx, a potent magical elixir made of virgin's milk and shade of the evening, even dragon's eggs which looked suspiciously like painted rocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“After you eat the egg,” Cordelia tells us, “you have to put a hole in the bottom of the shell.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, all of evolution could be perceived as the vertical transfer of germplasm from one generation to the next: an egg was the only way for a chicken to transfer information to another chicken. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Listening to Twig’s commentary, I could get through most of the round without too much anxiety, but by the thirteenth egg, none of us spoke. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The goose knew a day in advance that they were coming—she could hear their weak voices calling from inside the egg. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He will pluck it from the ashes like a warm egg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I watched as those eggs exploded, thick globs of yolk soaking into the soil. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll never know the diner where he got egg sandwiches in the morning or the corner where he double-locked his bike. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Red Pollard went as long as a year eating nothing but eggs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If she saw what the officer was doing, she would dive and bite him as she bit the man who was stealing eggs from my old friend Mrs. Fielder’s chicken house. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He transferred all die eggs from die small beach into the shelter, reburying them near his sleeping area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down at his eggs and bacon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Grayson brushed a yellow speck of egg from his white stubble. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once asked Gram if she would really go back to the egg man if Gramps cussed too much. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, they had come back in, and there were three fresh eggs in the hen house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Hold on while I look up Nigeria,” he said, and she went back to stirring her eggs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think it’s my favorite one of a hand holding an egg. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You put it on your eggs,” Lena reminded him, placing a bottle in front of Seth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Up overhead, in the shadows of the ceiling, Charlotte crouched unseen, her front legs encircling her egg sac. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

As they go, Hideo pulls out a bag of plastic red eggs from his backpack. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Mwanza hates it when she comes over scooting on her hands to trade us oranges for eggs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I would have known a pickled egg if I saw one. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He tried asking the egg questions, shouting over all the wailing, but nothing happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I go downstairs for breakfast, and Mom makes me eggs and some tea and I pick at the eggs and drink the tea. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s still in his pajama T-shirt, the one decorated with raw eggs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She ate egg after egg, right in front of us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Only after the eggs were split open, revealing moist reddish-yellow centers, did she return to her story. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to think of the flat powder coming from the egg of a real chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After hearing a researcher talk about cloning, Deborah asked Sharrer whether it was possible to take DNA from HeLa cells and put it into one of Deborah’s eggs to bring her mother back to life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He could make three dishes now — boiled rice, egg rice, and fried eggs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the candlelight, she looks of another world, her face all freckles, and in the center of the freckles those two eyes hang unmoving like the egg cases of spiders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The tribesman who was searching the alchemist’s belongings found a small crystal flask filled with a liquid, and a yellow glass egg that was slightly larger than a chicken’s egg. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress brings me a bonus: two silver- dollar patties of beef and pork, dipped in egg and fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would not let Mr. Olin know that we knew that he was egging us to fight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes sees the face of her unborn child, pale and blank as an egg, buoyed by the fountain waters. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things that had lain inside me, curled up like the turtle hatchlings newly emerged from their eggs, taking time in the dark of their nest to unfurl themselves. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember to feed the chickens. And see if we got some eggs. Get a move on now.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For example, for every dollar a consumer spends to buy eggs, forty cents finds its way back to the farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What’s this got to do with the price of eggs in China, and you know exactly what I mean.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her complaints, all in Chinese, sounded just like her complaints about customers who wanted extra duck sauce or a free egg roll. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right about now my emotions are like a big pan of scrambled eggs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that February the twenty-fourth looked a lot closer from this side of Christmas, and he still hadn’t done anything about working out the clue inside the golden egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Go in the coop and get a dozen eggs.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We can have us some deviled eggs and tuner-fish sandwiches right here in the kitchen, Comfort,” he went on. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And for a long time he held the egg in his hand, both frightened and astonished and unable to move, his eyes fixed upon the moon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the routine things I should be doing—milking the cow, feeding the chickens, collecting the eggs, and weeding the garden. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once—I swear—inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yesterday’s meal had cleared his senses and fueled his muscles, but now the eggs were gone from his belly and the smells of the warming valley brought on a powerful hunger. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A shelf held an African sculpture of a human hand holding an egg on the tips of its fingers, as if the egg contained something interesting about to hatch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fill a pot of water and add in five eggs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The waiter set down Dimple’s steaming, fragrant plate of cod and potatoes, garnished with halved boiled eggs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her two front legs embraced the egg sac. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He would have given half his fortune, if he had one, for a nice piece of raw, red meat, instead of the usual breast of chicken or scrambled eggs with asparagus. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Valley took out a small plastic pod filled with water in the shape of an egg and put both the fish in there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s the only reason I can think of for why Adria and I submerged this squished turtle in water in the very same pet shop container we’d used to save the bird eggs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I went then and gathered the eggs and held three back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make a shopping list: flour, eggs, ghee, marshmallows, chocolate chips, crushed graham crackers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“What’s the shape of a fried egg? How would you color the fat and lean of a strip of bacon?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, a bubble would swell and burst, disgorging a monster like a larva from an egg. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I’m telling you about bacon and eggs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I bet Miss Fulton makes a mean breakfast with eggs and sausage and gravy….I run out the door zipping my jacket, trying not to think ’bout how empty my belly is. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He even threw the egg across the room — though he hadn’t really expected that to help. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Izzie and I eat our eggs and toast quickly, so we can run outside and play. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was so deep that his feet barely touched the bottom, and he actually did a couple of lengths before swimming back to the side and treading water, staring at the egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mormont’s raven muttered his annoyance as the door opened beneath him, heralding the return of Dolorous Edd with a flagon of wine and a plate of eggs and sausages. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter pleaded to let him have a few more eggs but Ma Charles sat up straight in the pine chair her father made, looking every bit as “onchee” as her sister. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They’d brought slabs of hard salt beef, dried cod, dried beans, turnips, carrots, sacks of barley meal and wheaten flour, pickled eggs, barrels of onions and apples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He placed an egg in his basket and straightened up. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He placed the last shelled egg in the glass bowl and looked up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of police officers sat at the counter, eating fried egg sandwiches and exchanging notes. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After adding a pinch of salt, I began beating the egg whites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When he came to the eggs, he picked one up, tilted his head back, and broke it raw into his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ivan didn’t say anything to them as he dove for the food, cramming meat patties, boiled eggs, and fried, flat cakes into his mouth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His sister put down the egg but continued to glare at the retreating woman. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rolled eggs, rice balls with meat and vegetables, were ground into the dirty floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She teaches Max to sing the song while I slice the bread and boil the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was smaller and darker, and the only food it served was pickled eggs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the jackhammers silent, 426 fed Frightful again and nervously sat down and brooded the eggs while she exercised. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Around the barn in the hen house she found Edward, egg basket still empty, kneeling before the chickens. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there’s no space in the hive, the old queen lays some eggs, which are then fed something called royal jelly so that they grow into new queens,” Mel said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We see the miracle of nature’s control at work when the cod move through winter seas to their spawning grounds, where each female deposits several millions of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, after a while they just dropped like eggs and we loved having them, but I couldn’t see how we could afford a church with all these kids. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man behind the counter scrambled us some eggs. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leave the donut dough to rise as Dad eats his favorite Hanukkah dish, fried eggs and leftover latkes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“No, thanks,” I say in English, and settle next to Baba, who’s got a plateful of fried eggs sprinkled with pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s recipe said to add a couple of eggs next, so we did that. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“She’s such a manager of fowls, you have no idea. You shall have some eggs, and judge for yourself. I say, Mr. Pip!” calling me back, and speaking low. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, it was an egg floating in a hollowed-out basketball. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We sat at a picnic table on the banks of the lake, just Baba and me, eating boiled eggs with kofta sandwiches—meatballs and pickles wrapped in naan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The judges took our eggs up to the top of the building, except for a young curly-haired judge with a name tag that read SHAWN. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Willie melted the chocolate in a saucepan and I separated the egg whites from the yolks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like rotten eggs and smoke. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

A group of boys stood in a ring outside, smashing the apples from their lunches against their foreheads and egging each other on with guttural roars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They were the eggs of the hen your mind was inhabiting.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A messenger from Joseph arrived at midday bearing fresh eggs, pumpkins, three kinds of bread, and a joint of beef. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He hard-boiled some eggs for Orr and ate those too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"He had planned to take your dragon's eggs, until I warned him that I'd cut off his hand if he so much as touched them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first, these individuals were known simply as “egg hunters,” but this was quickly truncated to the nickname “gunters.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This, we decided, would be our secret hiding place for sweets and other small treasures such as conkers and monkey-nuts and birds’ eggs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flies with heads and tails make eggs with heads and tails, which make embryos with heads and tails, which grow into flies with heads and tails, and so forth, ad infinitum. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They snaked it over to the dock and connected it to something that resembled a giant rust- freckled egg. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stared at me as if I were a snake’s egg hatching, fumbling for his red pencil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you think about eggs at a time like this?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We lived three or four to a room, shared a single, icy toilet, and took turns cooking pots of egg curry, which we ate with our hands on a table covered with newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Eagle picked up his egg sandwich and took a bite. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

How on earth was this supposed to help solve the mystery of the egg? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When he breathes through his open mouth, I can smell the night scum coating his tongue and the sunny-side-up eggs he ate for breakfast. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They’d never take a trip down the Bay to lay their eggs before they died. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, Mom used to hide colored eggs for me all over the house. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So we merely look at them, watching the ants hiding their pill-shaped eggs in panic, the snakes pouring themselves into darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the age of four, I collected the eggs and knew how to look for signs of raccoons and coyotes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave an order for eggs and coffee. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they hunted chicken eggs in the low branches of the trees and the tall grasses of the prairie, but when they came to the beehives, everyone but Jinny and Joon hung back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Once frozen, these eggs are of great value for use in Love Potions and may be eaten whole as a cure for ague. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I did want to go down as usual, get my eggs and milk and do my work. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The eggs have cowrie-shell eyes and mouths, and soak in an elixir of herbs and holy water. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructions, he argued obliquely, were blended together in the fertilized egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re making it sound like were going to egg her house or something.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The day Frightful laid the second egg was cold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

People built homes the way they bought eggs: a little at a time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fly larvae may not seem appetizing to you and me, but that protein-rich diet makes the chickens’ eggs unusually rich and tasty. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ma was sitting at the kitchen table, rolling an egg between her palms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His manservant brings him the morning paper the tea the egg the toast and marmalade and he says, Take it away, life is empty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I have a weakness for fresh eggs,” Major de Coverley confessed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A hen clucked proudly, and Tree-ear grinned—Min would have an egg for his supper. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

My father was not Chinese like my mother, but English-Irish American, who enjoyed his five slices of bacon and three eggs sunny- side up every morning. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what happens when you try and make an omelet from a peculiar chicken egg!” said Millard, out of breath and laughing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Will often go broody; excellent for raising chicks from fertile eggs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some believed that sunshine shrank drops of dew into eggs, which hatched into maggots. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A chicken, de Vries realized, was merely an egg’s way of making a better egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to swallow my bite of egg but it stuck in my mouth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sneak back downstairs to examine the eggs and see which ones survived. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Departing from Goedart’s example, she also included eggs, declaring boldly that eggs were the source of every caterpillar despite widespread public belief in spontaneous generation of insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once home, I got out measuring spoons, cups, a mixing bowl, and an egg beater from Mom’s cupboard and carried them to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman fills our water keg with fresh water, serves us hard-boiled eggs from her hens, and gives Dayah a loaf of her bread, wrapped in a clean cloth, for the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s a good woman, your mother. You go to church and you have no worries! How many eggs you want, liebchen?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you talked to your parents about the egg project?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The colorful, tiny seeds look like miniature Easter eggs. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I was thinking next, but I ran into the kitchen and grabbed a carton of eggs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pictured their bones laid clean and white in a pile on top of the eggs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the breakfasts with pancakes, scrambled eggs, little bottles of juice, and sausage links. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He took another bite of egg, chewed, swallowed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cradling the egg with both hands, she carried it to the fire and pushed it down amongst the burning coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The room that should contain three rows of pods lined up like an egg carton is nearly empty. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad thought that any pet which didn’t lay eggs was an extravagance that a man with twelve children could ill afford. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the fridge, take out an egg, and hand it to my mom. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Every evening, it seems, Mr. Nielsen brings something home from a customer: a dozen eggs, soft Norwegian flatbread called lefse, a long knitted scarf. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A half gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, two cans of jack mackerel, a small bag of apples, and some popcorn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although a few nests were found in the treated area, a few with eggs, none contained young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew what enigma meant—my mother often said I was one, especially when I dipped fried eggs in grape jelly or deliberately wore mismatched socks. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My dad handed us two egg sandwiches and gave my mom a to-go cup of what smelled like café con leche. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They gathered the eggs, and they helped make cheese. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi placed the eggs on the counter and pulled a napkin out of a drawer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fixed me breakfast—scrambled eggs and Cream of Wheat—and fed me, one spoonful at a time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But today he only spoke to turn down Ma’s offer of a second egg, and Neel followed his example. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He crept down into his hole, pushed the goose egg out of the way, and returned with an old piece of dirty white string. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I pull her eyes a little out of their sockets, like spoons lifting eggs out of a cup-server. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dad got eggs Benedict with a side of potatoes, and Mom got a veggie omelet with fresh avocado on top. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I also asked him to make the pasta for the first course: morels sauteed in butter with thyme and, for color, the tiny fava beans, over fresh egg fettuccine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I thought about your painting of the hand with the egg. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Someday, maybe I can cook him some eggs from my own chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The game of egging Harrison and me to fight, to cut each other, kept up for a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairy lays up to fifty eggs at a time on the underside of leaves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was weird to see her dad making breakfast in the morning, eggs that looked too slimy to eat but both Maya and Lauren choked them down anyway. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just kept pushing the egg around on my plate. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I held my egg in one trembling hand, wondering if I’d have to use it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Brad sat quiet for a second, but his buddies kept egging him on by pushing his shoulders. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here y’are,” she said, and held out a plate with a fork and two fried eggs on it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eight minutes of hard X-rays being about as much as an egg can stand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Always she had a stuffed hard-boiled egg and she would hold it in her hand, mashing the yellow with her thumb so that the print of her finger was left there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like the one on the first night of our turtle walks, this one also contained a hundred and seven eggs, but this time all one hundred seven turtles emerged. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They suddenly remembered they forgot to get eggs, or began chasing after a running child that didn’t actually exist. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Imagine wanting a junky old rotten egg!” he muttered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the tray of glistening pink eggs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I kept waiting for Dad to Therapist me, and when he didn’t, I handed him the last egg in the carton. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dad pushed his plate of eggs away and forced a smile. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No time like the present, it was decided, egged on by the fact that people from Noah’s party—Zephyr included—kept knocking on my door, which was locked with a dresser in front of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Because sperm cells are basically devoid of mitochondria, almost all of an embryo’s mitochondria come from the egg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They offer scrambled eggs or a bowl of chicken soup. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’m dipping my biscuit in the gooey center of my sunny-side-up egg when Mom sits down with her cup of tea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Tobias made scrambled eggs, which, as it turns out, is a disgusting food.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine climbing towering trees, spying on eggs and eaglets. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ren, in typical fashion, is fussing over a platter of egg whites and boiled spinach, while Roshan just nurses a cup of spiced chai and grimaces at the plate that Wikki offers him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re making such a huge deal of this. We weren’t doing anything mean or destructive. We were at a diner, eating eggs!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the diner, which looked dingy by daylight, Dicey had fried eggs, while the others had pancakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had got some hay in the basket and was hunting eggs under the hen roost. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two great horned owl eggs lie in the cold snow-rimmed cavity in the broken top of the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she makes dozens of crosses all over my body, she says it’s time to see inside the egg, to understand what’s been stewing inside of me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Small birds, with a high-pitched yelp, lay eggs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment she added, "Please, bring me one of the dragon's eggs." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When can we test our egg designs by dropping them out of a third-story window? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She stuck close to Mr. Benedict until he had greeted everyone and taken his chair, after which she swooped upon the platter of toast and eggs, accidentally jostling Rhonda in the process. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she handed me a plate of scrambled eggs, made just for me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Any wizard realising that one or more Ashwinders are loose in the house must trace them immediately and locate the nest of eggs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talks instead of chewing, laughs with his mouth open, delivers a passionate thought through a mouthful of egg salad, the little yellow pieces spewing from his teeth. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have a bit more than that, you can throw in a proper sausage, like a bratwurst, or maybe a fried egg. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes down and ate his eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tray went on a small marble-topped side table and she knocked the top of the egg off for me with a pretty silver spoon as though I were a baby and needed feeding. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Boiled eggs, fried bread, and beans. And a jug of wine. The worst wine in the cellar.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom knocks an egg against the kitchen counter. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Next Milton, in different clothes, is greeting more customers; and Jimmy the cook is cracking eggs one- handed; and Lefty is looking left out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was backing away when Frightful lit on the girder and, putting one foot in front of the other, ran to the eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When it was nearly four o’clock, a slender boy in blue jeans from the Southwest team sauntered over to Kyle, Akimi, Sierra, and Miguel, who were slumped in beanbag chairs resembling dinosaur eggs. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I eat an orange, some toast, an egg, mushing it up in a teacup. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each glistening eclair is a grenade aimed at Celia’s political beliefs, each strawberry shortcake proof—in butter, cream, and eggs—of Lourdes’s success in America, and a reminder of the ongoing shortages in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Khoi is mad at Mother for taking his hen’s eggs. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They have pictures on them, of the things they can be exchanged for: twelve eggs, a piece of cheese, a brown thing that’s supposed to be a steak. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her chip off the egg and dip a spoon into the shell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie watched me open the bottle and pour some of the red sauce next to the eggs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

This cosmic egg would explode, inflate, and create the space-time of our universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Strong-smelling foods such as onions, fish, and herbs should also be avoided, as they may flavor your chickens’ eggs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The menu's chips, beans, hamburgers, sausages, and fried egg. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The flies come buzzing around the corpses and lay millions of eggs on the bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ebben had been bald as an egg, so she dangled the head by an ear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I helped Phil pour the eggs, water, and flour into a machine, then hang the strands on a rotating stand he had built. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Unless I want scrambled egg Hot Pockets this morning, I have to get to the cereal before Justin does. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Ashwinder fives for only an hour and during that time seeks a dark and secluded spot in which to lay its eggs, after which it will collapse into dust. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pack the egg in a plastic bag, surrounded with cereal. That’s what I did when I was your age.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Here’s an even simpler way to say it: To crack an egg properly, leave the yolk intact. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leon said again, a wicked whisper that spilled into Archie’s face the foul aftertaste of Leon’s breakfast—the smell of stale bacon and eggs. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carried them home in pots and bags to cook in an egg soup. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees me right before he can take another bite from his bacon, egg, and cheese roll, and he just turns to Harriett and busts out laughing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In the same way, I like to imagine my brother and me, floating together since the world’s beginning on our raft of eggs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That maybe I never knew cupcakes had eggs in them, because I never made a cupcake before. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As big as a pigeons egg, he wrote, and as blue as the sea, but with a flare of red at its core. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of my early Socratic victories came from a question driven by self-interest: “Why do we have to eat eggs for breakfast?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the north edge of town, just below the rich Chapultepec hills district, Lupita ran up to her brother with a tortilla and an egg taken from her sack. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes danced, and a smile cracked his old, wrinkled face like an egg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Stella had just cupped her hand around the last egg in the nest, the chicken huffing and fluffing its feathers, when her father came into the coop on Saturday morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the next ten hours they would fry eggs, grill burgers, pour coffee, and wash dishes for a stream of customers from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shawn stepped forward to inspect the egg, and my head rang with Mom would be so disappointed in me—but then he gave a thumbs-down. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Have bacon and eggs for breakfast, go to a real school. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So was Mena, who kept trying to use her unique ability to never shut up to egg Ada on with her questioning. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the egg parasites are exceedingly minute wasps, yet by their numbers and their great activity they hold down the abundance of many crop-destroying species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The moon shone through the trees as full and creamy yellow as the eggs Pax had eaten a week before. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re still pretty good layers. We get eight or ten dozen eggs off them every day and sell what we don’t eat to the Cowgills.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Konrad Lorenz has been “mother” to many geese—those he raised from the time they left their eggs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baxter took a few of the eggs and cracked them into a large bowl. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

After doing this three times, she flipped him over on his back and asked Mama to bring her three eggs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like a cup of water or rather milk; yes, it’s milk or flour or maybe an egg—or, specifically, their ersatz substitutes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I had help on the egg in the first place,” said Cedric. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ma was still pressing hard, trying to crush the egg from top and bottom. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She whisked the eggs and poured them into a skillet on the stove. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They tell us one egg is exactly like any other, but that’s just not the case. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There were slices of boiled yam, like lunch, but then a plate of fried eggs, too, more like breakfast. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Sea Queen room smelled of eggs and filter coffee. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I paint in egg tempera, the technique of monks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love let her eggs turn cold while she hovered over Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No. I’ll have it right here. And I want a boiled egg and a piece of cinnamon toast. Four and a half minutes on the egg. Make sure. I don’t want it gooey.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About ten hours after fertilization of the egg, the embryo divides into three broad segments, head, thorax, and abdomen, and each segment divides into further subcompartments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Police in New York City distribute bread and eggs to the unemployed in 1930. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A doctor, James Alonzo Gannon, then shoved a hard feeding tube down their throats and poured in a concoction of two raw eggs mixed with a pint of ice-cold milk. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want a single one of those eggs harmed.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, after she’d been sitting for a long time, something did come, but it was a sausage instead of an egg. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A crowd began to form, egging them on. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"Ahh, he's as full of lies as an egg is of meat," Jack, the cannoneer, said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Those aren’t bird eggs!” she told us, trying to catch her breath. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later, the judges would score the surviving eggs based on durability and bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I was still biting my lip so hard, thinking about eggs and birthdays and allergies and not crying, and I didn’t think about it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach flipped over like an egg in a skillet. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the frozen heat of his glance they tripped over doorsills and dropped the salt cellar into the yolks of their poached eggs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roamer leans in so close, I can smell the eggs he had for breakfast. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took a short bath, just to lose the smell of rotten eggs that clung to him from the dripping tunnel, and fell into bed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he and Linda first moved to Milagro he bought a fiber glass fly rod and some salmon eggs, and that had been one way to work the tension from his system. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself . . . and her eyes went to the dragon's eggs resting in their nest of dark velvet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There’s something amazing about any souffle, how a half dozen eggs flavored by nothing more than sugar and chocolate can turn into something so air-like. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen draws a picture of an egg with a baby chick inside it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Justin is polishing off a plate of eggs, sausage, and hash browns. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

With the money we got selling the meat one afternoon, a few weeks after the government man’s visit, we bought some potatoes and some eggs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Don’t tell your grandfather, but I don’t mind a few hells and damns. Besides, that egg man snored to beat the band.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“But that was a dumb place to stand. 1 couldn’t stop myself. Drop in at the cafe sometime, I’ll give you a free egg salad sandwich, or a hamburger, or a milkshake, whatever you like.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just fixing to get up off the back steps and go gather the eggs when Campbell Junior started squalling in the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Deep inside the hedge, there’s a nest of twigs cupping three speckled eggs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The TV-dish repair guy showed up while my mother was making eggs and pancakes, and he was still banging around on the roof when we all sat down to eat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the complex rose a citadel larger than Grand Central Station, its walls encrusted with pearls, its domed golden roof cracked open like an egg. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bees would be calm after all, the snakes silent, and the chickens full of eggs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But if we leave them here a snake will get them,” I said, imagining a serpent swallowing each egg whole. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re just another dirty turtle egg, like all the others,” he growled. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And you might want to work on your grammar,” Ruthanne added with a mouthful of egg salad sandwich. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go inside. See what your mom is cooking. Probably scrambled eggs.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our plates are filled with golden-brown waffles, sunny-side up eggs, and clusters of grapes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, the smell of fire and cooked eggs wafted into his room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I think Gwin had good hunting last night. I hope he hasn’t been plundering a nest again. Perhaps it’s just Elinor’s rolls and eggs.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There is a dandelion, right in front of me, the color of egg yolk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave an ungainly wobble, and the golden egg, still damp from the bath, slipped from under his arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That was how Naomi and the twins started feeding Muff’s chickens and gathering eggs from her coop. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the part nearer the verb is plural, the verb is plural: Neither the milk nor the eggs were fresh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he had an idea—he thought of the egg sac and the five hundred and fourteen little spiders that would hatch in the spring. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Because . And she couldn’t really think of a reason not to. “Last one in’s a rotten egg,” he said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After carrying her silkworm eggs all the way from Bithynios, Desdemona had been forced to dump them out at Ellis Island. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she lifted the eggs from the wash basin and began to peel them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the cloth altar, she arranged baskets of food—quinoa and cheese and hard-boiled eggs, and as a special treat for the most recently dead baby, chocolate ice cream and a bottle of Inca Kola. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school we make Easter eggs out of construction paper, pink and purple and blue, and stick them onto the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When you bury the egg, make sure she is in a safe place,” Pond said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In exchange the animals provided the humans their milk, eggs, and—yes—their flesh. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The milk pail reminded me that in my concern over choosing a new route, I had forgotten to bring my own pail, and also to bring anything to carry my eggs in. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps," said Qhorin, finishing the egg, "but there is more, I think. He is seeking something in the high cold places. He is searching for something he needs." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"With water hot enough to boil an egg." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously Dari did, because Dari’s smart, and forgetting the egg at an egg drop contest would be a not-so-smart move, but the question got them back on track. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I ravage the pantry and fridge, but we don’t even have tortillas—nothing except condiments, eggs, and one sad pickle floating in a jar. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I took a bite of hard-boiled egg and chewed it furiously. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked young, but her hair was frizzy white, sticking out on either side of her head like the white of a giant fried egg. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The egg continued peeping and wobbling until nightfall, when the gosling inside settled down to sleep and the egg became quiet and still. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She pressed harder on both ends of the egg. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could see was the moon like a big egg yolk way up in the sky. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And what about the chickens, the eggs, the milk, the garden? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I made him eggs but he didn't eat them." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Eat,” Asher says to him over his own plate of scrambled eggs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With that, which had taken all her courage, Beetle gathered up the butter and the eggs, only one of which had broken, and marched away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would stick it to the egg, apply too much pressure, and end up covered in yolk. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Please, Viserys. It is forbidden. Put down the sword and come share my cushions. There's drink, food ... is it the dragon's eggs you want? You can have them, only throw away the sword." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We just watched Dari sweep it aside to prepare for the next egg. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a dull explosion as the egg broke, and then a horrible smell. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And Pastor Patton’s salary came from the collection basket, which usually only gathered a few coins each Sunday, supplemented by the goodness of others who occasionally brought him fresh chickens or eggs or bread. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was so busy with the fresh side pork, fried eggs, and hot biscuits, I didn’t pay much attention to her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a place for picnics, with lunch beside the brook and hard-boiled eggs.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She leans over Frank’s shoulder, looks at the cracked eggs in the hot pan. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Always on the day when Doug ate six eggs for breakfast, he ran around and around a big track and people clapped and gave him a shiny medal. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That way, you won’t have all your eggs in one basket,” he said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I nuzzle the cloak Arabella gave me, pulling it more tightly under my neck, and I cradle my waist-pouch full of dragon eggs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When someone hurled raw eggs at her, she wiped away the gooey mess and said that the “seeds of truth” in her words could not be so easily removed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Eggs are just eggs, baby,” Ma Charles said, warm like Papa. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Stop him. Bring him here. Tell him he can have the dragon's eggs if that is what he wants." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Back then, while World War II was going on, whenever one of our hens would lay a bad egg we’d mark it with an “H”—for Hitler. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Didn’t I eat hens’ eggs and river trout and venison? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He crept along till he reached the egg sac. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were no mirrors in camp, but he imagined he looked like he had a hard-boiled egg sticking out of him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about that, Mrs. Turner, but I was hoping I might get some eggs.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ordered sandwiches for himself and Henry, two soft-boiled eggs, toast, and tea with honey for Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the eggs are huge and extra deli- cious, with two yolks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems early for that, but reveille sneaks up faster than Pop's wake-up call of scorched eggs and charred bacon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I’d never put anything on my eggs, but I wondered if it would be rude not to try it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

All her friends were laughing and egging her on, and when I got in her face for talking about you, she said she was kidding. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The quail egg Runt had brought was smaller, its speckled shell flecked with dried grass, and it smelled gamier than the ones his humans ate. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mother places in front of me a plate with four fried eggs, hash browns, and a pretty big piece of steak. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that it involved an egg, so I imagined they used a cooked one—likely fried—which left the recipient greasy and smeared with yolk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was about the size and shape of, shall we say, a turkey’s egg. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Platters of duck and partridge, rabbit and bird eggs, and seasoned venison passed by in dizzying numbers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Ate a pound of doxy eggs for a bet.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Big Ma was beating the yolkiness out of the few eggs our hens managed to lay. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We set the egg timer for one minute. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When they fused, the genetic material from the two cells combined, as with sperm meeting egg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knocked and went into his room with a glass of the cold tea and a soft-boiled egg I had stirred up in a cup, hoping I could get him to eat a few bites. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I hit you in the head. With an egg!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He washed his face and ate the eggs and beans his grandmother prepared. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, pages slide onto the floor, or get greasy from some eggs or bacon Momma eats while she’s reading. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They began with a broth of crab and monkfish, and cold egg lime soup as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some cocoons were allowed to hatch into white silk moths, which would produce eggs and continue the cycle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad turns off the heat under the eggs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found Shin, wild-eyed and wrench in hand, standing over Gong, whose bloody arm had a lump on it the size of an egg. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was loaded with bullets the size of robins’ eggs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said to Gramps, “Remember that letter from the egg man that you found under the mattress?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We need a plan of action for this egg drop competition,” Dari said once they’d finished with the lab, and I startled at his voice, at the sound of reality. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

People were buying toothpaste, having arguments, picking up eggs on the way home from work. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I unearth my egg and see that it’s cooked perfectly to a soft boil. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The proteins create a gradient within the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I puncture the egg and watch the yellow river swirl on my plate. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It is not uncommon for their egg production to be increased threefold — all through the beneficent effect of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The old woman stopped to count the number of eggs, her lips lightly moving. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a time she sighed and went out into the rain, returning shortly with a hard-boiled egg. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were about like mine, blue not like the sky but like plastic Easter eggs. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“She’s used to flying around outside. If I could just let her out at night —” “Do I look stupid?” snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He finished the last of his eggs and sighed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Bessermann screams for scrambled eggs, and I wonder if Mr. Krajewska is sitting on the other side of the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Plus, I wanted to help the Baxters, and I’d become quite good at collecting the eggs without getting the chickens all riled up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she wished to trace the path of each marvelous creature, from egg—laid on a particular host plant—to larva, to pupa, to adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged and removed another dead egg from the second tray. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the goose, “that’s not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I’ve too many things under my behind. Have you ever tried to sleep while sitting on eight eggs?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Why isn’t the bird sitting on her eggs?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He held Aaron Copland’s Autobiography: Manuscript Edition like it was a half-cracked egg. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The egg whites doubled in size, then doubled again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They were coming to take the egg, and there was nothing I could do to stop them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On Easter Sunday the Lykes staff took us to one of our sponsor’s homes—an elegant waterfront mansion—for an egg hunt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He just turned eleven, and his name is the light blue of a robin’s egg. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It hung heavy, hung green like the green of Easter eggs left too long in the dye. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secular calendar whirled like a carnival wheel and offered carnival prizes—a fat Santa instead of the infant God; colored eggs and chocolate bunnies instead of the death and resurrection of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting down, the wind from the river brushing her face, she laid a pale cream-and-pink egg. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know about ovipositors, for laying eggs, on leaves, on caterpillars, on the surface of the water; they’re right out on the page, clearly labeled, on the diagrams of insects my father corrects at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wants the fattest chicken they can find, a sack of rice, two onions, six brown eggs, and a refill of lard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I sneaked into the hen house and took eggs, but the chickens were scared, thinking from my approach at night that I was a weasel or a fox. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ate the egg, I ate the sausage, and when I reached for more sugar for my tea she slapped my hand away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Arize paused as she removed a translucently pale egg from inside the chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he began in his sharp voice, “you say you have seven goslings. There were eight eggs. What happened to the other egg? Why didn’t it hatch?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Or she can stay quiet for a really long time staring at something like an egg. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally after a few days, the kitchen phone rang while me and Bertha were out on the porch eating egg salad sandwiches for lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It had a greasy, almost oily taste, but it was still an egg. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached in and pulled out Mr. Neely’s flyer, scanning straight past the happy egg to the bottom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The constant vibrations from two jackhammers trembled the huge horizontal web, but Frightful stayed with her eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My father looked up from his two fried eggs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, inside each egg one cell became two, two became four, then eight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike the rooster, the chickens were mostly quiet, except when they cackled to announce that an egg would soon be laid. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mohammad brings eggs and bread and cheese, and a mug of hot sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the eggs hatched, I put shreds of abalone under the tree and these she fed her young. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam’s almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tortillas and eggs and a bottle of water. That’s all they have,” he said with disgust. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He had toast and oatmeal, scrambled eggs with chorizo sausage, a plastic mug of orange juice, a strip of cold bacon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a plate and scoop up a mountain of potatoes, eggs, and sausages, trying to keep from looking desperate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rufus chains his bike to a parking meter and I follow him inside the fairly empty café, immediately smelling scrambled eggs and French toast. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They egg her on: “Listen, I don’t blame you! I think he’s just cute as a button!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to drop the eggs and see which ones survived and get back to being okay. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A great many citizens felt such measures were harsh and unfair, especially after being fined when mosquito eggs were found on their property. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z