preggers

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So greedy and eager are the gulls that they sometimes even wound the eggers, striking them with their beaks.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles

The Gulls too suffer when the eggers come, for their eggs are gathered up with the Murres for the markets.

From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)

The fishermen brought no guns: they weren't looking for trouble: they were taken by surprise when the eggers rushed down on them like tigers roused from their lairs.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton

The westernmost island, we visited was outside the national reservation, and that very morning it had been visited and plundered by a party of eggers.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

The "eggers" increased in numbers and thoroughness till the eggs decreased in the more accessible spots below paying quantities.

From Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry