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  • Your hegg he must break himself See, I crack, so, he sit in the poele, umbedimbt!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I was inclined to smile when he said, “Might be hegg belonga scrub hen sit down!”

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Good track — blenty tchugar-bag, blenty hegg, blenty wallaby, close up.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • When they git it, a-fume in a tumbler, a-smelling like hegg-chests gone wrong,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various

  • But I go with my heart in my mouth, and I feel like a blooming bad hegg.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various

  • He had his breakfast in bed at a quarter to eight — tea and buttered toast, with a hegg lightly boiled, as he did every day in the year.

    The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928

  • We were eight days in bed and all we got was milk and once or twice a hegg.

    The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

  • 'Or would you be persuaded to try a new-laid hegg? or should I brile a rasher?

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • "Grandfather laughed at me because I didn't say 'hippotamus' right – I called it a 'nippotamus,' and he made me say 'hi-hi-hip,' and that's got me into the way of saying it to everything, like calling a negg, a hegg."

    The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

  • Avenue -- you might call it a sort of general business, fruit, vegetables, hegg -- eggs, coal, firewood and vinous liquors, sir.

    Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897

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