plovers'-eggs

Updated: June 26, 2025

They agree not to choose to know who has made the noise, who has broken the window, who has eaten up the pigeons, who has picked all the plovers'-eggs out of the aspic, how it is that liqueur brandy of Gledstane's is in such porous glass bottles -and so forth.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Roundabout Papers