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  • After eating our fill of berries, with two nestfuls of partly hatched quail-eggs for dessert, Lop-Ear and I wandered circumspectly into the woods toward the river.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • Inspirations, the lofty flights, the hymns, and songs, and ballads, and odes; all the nestfuls hatched during the last seven years, in fact.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • At every step they crushed in nestfuls of decayed eggs which sent up their protests to high heavens.

    The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis

  • His unerring sixth sense enabled him to bring in several nestfuls, amounting to something over three hundred eggs.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • After eating our fill of berries, with two nestfuls of partly hatched quail-eggs for dessert, Lop-Ear and I wandered circumspectly into the woods toward the river.

    Chapter X 1906

  • After eating our fill of berries, with two nestfuls of partly hatched quail-eggs for dessert, Lop-Ear and I wandered circumspectly into the woods toward the river.

    Before Adam Jack London 1896

  • All was fish that came to Tam's net: tadpoles, newts, and stickleback from the ponds, beetles from the dung-heaps, green crabs from the sea - shore -- nay, even in time such larger prizes as hedgehogs, moles, and nestfuls of birds.

    Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873

  • All was fish that came to Tam's net: tadpoles, newts, and stickleback from the ponds, beetles from the dung-heaps, green crabs from the sea-shore -- nay, even in time such larger prizes as hedgehogs, moles, and nestfuls of birds.

    Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873

  • -- all the _Essays in Verse_, the _Inspirations_, the lofty flights, the hymns, and songs, and ballads, and odes; all the nestfuls hatched during the last seven years, in fact.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • -- all the _Essays in Verse_, the _Inspirations_, the lofty flights, the hymns, and songs, and ballads, and odes; all the nestfuls hatched during the last seven years, in fact.

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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