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nest egg

«For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: / And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bounds, left wing, nest egg, peep, peeping
«If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: / But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: be well, chance upon, nest egg, The Eggs, young bird
«In the broken nest there are no whole eggs»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: nest egg
«Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: addled, announce, blink, blinked, blinking, blinks, brood, cackle, cackles, cackling, delusion, egg, fowl, nest egg, remark
«Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: egg, laid, nest egg, recorded, welcomed
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