"Nest egg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Student Salsify.—Long White French, Sandwich Islands, Thick Rooted Brussells Sprouts.—Seven Dwarf, Tall, Green, Dwarf Prolific, Lady Finger, White Velvet, Perkins Mammoth, Sugar Trough, Dipper, Nest Egg, Spocen Sage Thyme Summer Savory Dill Winter Savory Martynia Chicory Carrots.—Ox Heart, St. Valery, Early Scarlet Horn, Half Long Scarlet, Danvers Half Long; Long Yellow Stump Root, Long Orange, Short White Vosges, White Belgian, Yellow Belgian, Danvers, ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow. stock in trade, supply; heap &c (collection) 72; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche [Fr.]. crop, harvest, mow, vintage. store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay &c (provision) 637. storehouse, storeroom, storecloset^; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... you have one thing already in your favour. You have a wee bit o' siller in your pouch. It is a nest egg, though; it is not to be spent—it is there to bring more beside it. Now, will I tell you how I got on in the world? I'm not rich, but I am in a fair way to be independent. I am very fond of work, for work's sake, and I'm thirty years of age. Been in this country now for ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables |
