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Updated: June 14, 2025
Well now, I'll be takin' leave of ye; but before I go, I want you to accept something I brought you just a small trifle of a talisman." And from some mysterious receptacle he produced a good-sized dark stone, about the size of a pigeon's egg. "Now, whatever ye do, put this carefully away and keep it safe and secure." Shafto took it in his hand, examined the gift and murmured his thanks.
The collection contained a number of spherical beads in green jade, highly polished, and some as large as pigeon's eggs. They were found in an alabaster box, of such elaborate and beautiful workmanship that the owner deemed it worthy to be presented as a sort of peace-offering to the wife of President Santa Ana. The word coyotl in the name of the Tezcucan king is the present word coyote a jackal.
Li Wan took one of these and placed it on dowager lady Chia's table, while lady Feng chose the bowl with pigeon's eggs and put it on goody Liu's table. Goody Liu at this speedily sprung to her feet. "Old Liu, old Liu," she roared with a loud voice, "your eating capacity is as big as that of a buffalo! You've gorged like an old sow and can't raise your head up!"
The door and windows were immediately closed, or everything in the rooms would have been drenched. On seeing these hailstones, some of which were the size of a pigeon's egg, Pencroft's first thought was that his cornfield was in serious danger. He directly rushed to his field, where little green heads were already appearing, and by means of a great cloth, he managed to protect his crop.
It passed over the head-station and travelled at a furious rate along the plain. Hailstones fell, as large as a pigeon's egg, and stripped off such leafage as the drought had left. Thunder volleyed and lightning blazed. Part of the roof of the Old Humpey was torn off. The hide-house was practically blown away.
The soil in the creek was of the richest quality, and was found to produce a dwarf melon, having all the habits and character of the cucumber. The fruit was not larger than a pigeon's egg, but was extremely sweet. There were not, however, many ripe, although the runners were covered with flowers, and had an abundance of fruit upon them.
He pressed his hand to his side and held it there. "Yes, I know. Give me your money. It will help swell Carrier Pigeon's pile to-morrow." "Not unless he can fly," said Robin. "What 's his name!" The clerk had picked up his pen. Robin scratched his head in perplexity. "Le' me see. I 'mos' forgit. Oh, yes." He gave the name. "What! Call him 'J. D.?" "Yes, dat 'll do."
A pigeon's clutch normally consists of two eggs, one with a large yolk and one with a small yolk. But the half-and-half numerical relation of males to females varies considerably i.e., not all the large-yolked eggs produce females or all the small-yolked ones males.
"Yes, mistress." "Or to Youmäale, the cannibal?" "Yes, mistress." "You hear that, sir?" said Angela. "Never mind, my dear, I am not jealous, you know that; beauty is as the sun, it shines for all the world." "Because you are not jealous, then, I will pardon you. Help yourself to what is before you. What is that, Mirette?" "Madame, the roe of fish fried in pigeon's fat."
"Yes, Papa," said Hal, glad to make himself out a victim to circumstance; "you can't think what a pair of fellows those are for not letting one alone; Purday says they haven't as much conscience between them as a pigeon's egg has meat; and going down to Mr. Carey's with them every day, they let one have no peace."
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