egg spoon

Historical Examples

• The Rat let his egg-spoon fall on the table-cloth, and sat open-mouthed.

  The Wind in the Willows

  Kenneth Grahame

• Miss Standish laid down her egg-spoon, and sat staring at Winifred.

  Flint

  Maud Wilder Goodwin

• I've forgotten an egg-spoon, and I don't know where such things are kept.

  The House 'Round the Corner

  Gordon Holmes

• With no premonition of what was to come she took her egg-spoon and cracked her egg, an egg laid by one of her own hens.

  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

  S.M. Hussey

• The words: "God forbid," sprang to Pierson's lips; he did not speak them, but put his egg-spoon down, hurt and bewildered.

  Saint's Progress

  John Galsworthy