heggs

'nothing for breakfast' when you have bacon, and – who in the world ever taught you to say 'heggs'?

The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

"Werry sorry, sir, but there's no heggs," he replied to this somewhat imperative order from Master Tommy, looking absolutely crestfallen at having thus to confess the shortcomings of his commissariat.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

(Gilbert, a little, French orphan) sucks heggs, hi'm sure.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Damned little heggs they were; (p. 276) they must 'ave been laid by tomtits in a' urry.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

"Even if we 'ad the brass and the appetite we can't buy any milk or heggs' ere."

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

"At home we have bread and milk every day except Sunday – on Sunday we have bacon or heggs, because that's the nothing-for-breakfast day."

The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

"'Ow could' e 'ave liver," said he, "hif there was only bycon an 'heggs?"

The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure William Bowen 1907

"He'll lose it as sure as eggs is heggs," said Steve, regarding him intently, "Bear a hand to lift 'im in his bunk, Harry."

More Cargoes 1897 1903

"He'll come aboard 'ere as safe as heggs is heggs," said Joe, despondently.

A Master Of Craft 1903

"He'll lose it as sure as eggs is heggs," said Steve, regarding him intently.

Sea Urchins 1903