Which preposition to use with egg

in Occurrences 242%

Cut hard-boiled eggs in halves; then fry 1 small chopped onion and 1 chopped apple in hot butter; add 1/4 cup of pounded almonds and 1 pint of milk, mixed with 1/2 tablespoonful of cornstarch.

with Occurrences 134%

Beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 1 cup of pulverized sugar; add 1 pint of cream; stir well until very light.

of Occurrences 106%

For I think it will be admitted, that the germs brought to us by meteorites, if any, were not ova of elephants, nor of crocodiles; not cocoa-nuts nor acorns; not even eggs of shell-fish and corals; but only those of the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life.

to Occurrences 102%

Remove the eggs to a platter; arrange the onions on the eggs; sprinkle with salt and red pepper and pour over some lemon-juice.

on Occurrences 80%

But a few hope to be made deputies, if their candidates succeed, and they therefore egg on the rest.

for Occurrences 71%

" "And the eggs for breakfast?

into Occurrences 62%

The Turk had put all his eggs into one basket.

from Occurrences 43%

The Metropolis is supplied with eggs from all parts of the kingdom, and they are likewise largely imported from various places on the continent; as France, Holland, Belgium, Guernsey, and Jersey.

at Occurrences 37%

It is as though Patti wouldn't sing till her manager threw an egg at her, or as though Sir Frederick Leighton would only paint a picture after Mr. Whistler had broken his studio windows with a brick.

until Occurrences 31%

Boil eggs until hard; remove the shells.

without Occurrences 15%

Take a pint of good thick cream, grate into it the outermost skin of two lemons, and squeeze the juice into a jack of white wine, and sweeten it to your taste; take the whites of two eggs without the strains, beat them to a froth, so whisk them altogether in a stone bowl for half an hour, then put them into glasses for use.

by Occurrences 12%

So that the least that one could do was to scheme to get the precious egg by private barter with the natives, and to find the silk pillow that spelt comfort, but was the anathema of asepsis.

under Occurrences 11%

the crows they keep a-comin' an' snippin' up the little creturs jest as soon's they're hatched; an' the old turkey hen't sot under the grapevine she got two hen's eggs under her, 'n' they come out fust, so she quit" Here I bolted out of the door, (a storm at sea did not deafen one like that!)

out Occurrences 10%

Nor is one long left in doubt what these solid particles are; for the blowflies, attracted by the odour of the meat, swarm round the vessel, and, urged by a powerful but in this case misleading instinct, lay eggs out of which maggots are immediately hatched, upon the gauze.

as Occurrences 10%

Boil a stick of cinnamon in a pint of cream, four eggs well beat, leaving out two whites, boil the cream and thicken it with the eggs as for a custard; then put it in your dish, and put over it half a pound of loaf sugar beat and searc'd; heat a fire-shovel red-hot, and hold it over the top till the sugar be brown.

before Occurrences 7%

And yet if it comes in question, whether a plant that lies ready formed in the seed have life; whether the embryo in an egg before incubation, or a man in a swoon without sense or motion, be alive or no; it is easy to perceive that a clear, distinct, settled idea does not always accompany the use of so known a word as that of life is.

over Occurrences 5%

Again stamp out the centre of these smaller rings; brush over the others with the white of an egg, place a small ring on the top of every large circular piece of paste, egg over the tops, and bake from 15 to 20 minutes.

about Occurrences 5%

Shrimps carry their eggs about with them; no doubt you have often found masses of eggs under the Shrimp's body.

against Occurrences 4%

A big sea broke them and the little boat like a basket of eggs against the side of the ship.

than Occurrences 4%

"Better upon an egg than upon a quack!" retorted the priest.

through Occurrences 4%

"How is that?" "Yes, the doctor called me, and I passed him in his egg through the half-open door.

near Occurrences 2%

This ammunition store must have been eight miles away as the crow flies, but the noise of the explosion was so violent that it was a considerable time before some officers could be brought to believe an enemy plane had not laid an egg near us.

during Occurrences 2%

She now charged me with the task of taking out these eggs during her absence, and of carefully preserving them in the vessels.

beneath Occurrences 2%

The female has a red stripe down her back, and red eggs beneath her.

within Occurrences 2%

To him the terrestrial atmosphere was a generative envelope; he saw the earth as an egg within its shell; and not being able to determine whether the egg or the hen first was, he would not recognize either the cock or the egg.

Which preposition to use with  egg