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Bacon and eggs

noun

European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America. Synonyms: babies' slippers, bird's foot clover, bird's foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.

Eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon.

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... Mother Brown. "Well, I'm sure if the poor tramp was hungry I'm glad he got something to eat. But I wish he had not taken my bacon and eggs." ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While • Laura Lee Hope

... just arrived a day later than us and their guide is deficient in common sense. We are quite old soldiers now and past such excitement; we could billet ourselves in China if necessary. However, Brown goes to help. To-day we rose early and breakfasted at 10-0 off bacon and eggs (fried by me), bread and jam. We have a company orderly officer, and it is my turn to-day, so I had to get up and put trousers, coat and boots over my pyjamas and to mount a guard at 8 a.m. and to dress properly afterwards. We have cold baths out of a hand basin and ...

— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack

... much at hotels and taverns, are so urgent. Will you think I am disrespectful if I ask whether, even in Massachusetts, a dose of calomel is not sometimes given by a physician on the same principle as that upon which a landlord occasionally prescribes bacon and eggs,—because he cannot think of anything else quite so handy? I leave my suggestion of borrowing a hint from French ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... into the little back-room which he inhabited, the old man gave me all he had to offer—a supper of bacon and eggs and a glass of home-brewed beer. He was evidently puzzled to understand me when I informed him that the only object of my visit was to look once more at the familiar scenes round my old home. But he willingly placed his services at my disposal; and he engaged ...

— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins

Words linked to "Bacon and eggs" : bird's foot clover, dish, lotus, subshrub, bird's foot trefoil, babies' slippers, genus Lotus, suffrutex