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They procured a pullet's egg, it was emptied into a cup, to this was added flour and salt, in equal proportions, these ingredients were mixed together, made into three small cakes, and baked.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Break into each tomato a pullet's egg, sprinkle with pepper and salt.
The Belgian Cookbook Various
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Beat lightly the yolks of three eggs, beating in a lump of fresh butter the size of a pullet's egg; add powdered sugar and the whites of the eggs well beaten.
The Belgian Cookbook Various
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Its size is that of a cocoa-nut, husk and all; its rind is very thick, of a pale green colour, and covered with strong sharp thorns; its interior is divided into compartments, each of which contains three or four seeds about the size of a pullet's egg; these seeds are covered, to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, with a pale yellow pulp, which is the part eaten.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Arrived at the henroost (your neighbor's, not your own), you light a match and hold it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that bag without making any trouble about it.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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There she sits through the broiling heat of the day, and there is no hope, for a pullet's first eggs never hatch.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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It was oblong, and about as big as a pullet's egg, but more irregular in shape.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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Why it was as if I had been given a thin-shelled pullet's egg to carry on my palm from
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906
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_Mother_: It is going astray on me what sort of egg best suits him, a pullet's egg or the egg of a duck.
Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory 1892
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The enlargement may be only slight, or the dimensions of the gland may be increased from the size of a large chestnut, its normal dimension, to the volume of a pullet's egg, or even to the size of an orange.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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