Eggers

Every operator at this game was attended by certain of his friends called eggers and bonnetters -- the eggers to ` egg 'on the green ones to bet, by betting themselves; and the bonnetters to ` bonnet' any green one who might happen to win -- that is to say, to knock his hat over his eyes, whilst the operator and the others bolted with the stakes. ❋ Unknown (1870)

Collectors, known as "eggers" are hated in the birdwatching community.

Most of the population are in the have not category, folks that live paycheck to paycheck, the 9 to 5 ham 'n eggers who have champagne taste but only beer money. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Children search nearby for obsidian shards and eggers, a volcanic quartz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Either way, I'm excited to see what Demme does with Zeitoun. monkeytoad eggers is the most overrated, mfa-ey, kinderslut writer i've ever read. even worse than his self aggrandizing novels and non-fict are his screenplays, which i consider to be some of the most hack material produced by a professional writer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Comments ok so i'm only saying this cause it's my birthday and i'm absolved from any flames, but does anyone else hate this david eggers. not only long winded, and a name dropper, but full of his self to boot, ick! of course, i'll always love good ol jeff and his daily contributions to my tattered workday. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I myself remember quite well, within a couple of decades ago, what was probably at the time a remnant of the old Mystery play presented in a rural part of Lancashire by men in a fantastic garb, and termed by the country folk, "Paste-eggers." ❋ R. J. Broadbent (N/A)

The man and the boat are two of the chief obstacles in the way of the poachers, the plume-hunters, and eggers, who always threaten these bird sanctuaries. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Wreckers are no longer respectable, and plume-hunters and eggers are sinking to the same level. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The westernmost island, we visited was outside the national reservation, and that very morning it had been visited and plundered by a party of eggers. ❋ Unknown (1916)

So greedy and eager are the gulls that they sometimes even wound the eggers, striking them with their beaks. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

I asked some of the eggers how many murres nested on the South Farallon, and they thought at least one hundred thousand. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

But the eggers say that when it leaves the island they do not know whither it goes, and they assert that it is not abundant on the neighboring coast. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

The eggs of the shags and parrots are not used, but the eggers destroy them to make more room for the other birds. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

During the height of the egging season the gulls hover in clouds over the rocks, and when a rookery is started, and the poor birds leave their nests by hundreds, the air is presently alive with gulls flying off with the eggs, and the eggers are sometimes literally drenched. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

Farallon, on which the light-house stands, is the favorite resort of these creatures, who come here in astonishing numbers every summer to breed; and it is to this island that the eggers resort at that season to obtain supplies of sea-birds 'eggs for the San Francisco market, where they have ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

The murre remains until her enemy is close upon her; then she rises with a scream which often startles a thousand or two of birds, who whirl up into the air in a dense mass, scattering filth and guano over the eggers. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

In the egging season one or two are shot to supply oil to the lamps of the eggers; and occasionally one is caught for exhibition on the main-land. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

It seems as an NFL player, either a scrub or a star, it shouldn't be all that hard to get laid, but these bozo's continue to give us ham n eggers a reason to chase the ladies, without any charges ..... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like Trachsel, Redding is one of those the journeyman ham n 'eggers that inexplicably gives the Phillies fits. ❋ Unknown (2009)