What is "eger"

Usage examples of "eger".

Karoly ordered me a glass of red from the wine country around Eger, and it was a pleasant surprise.

But it seemed just a little bit too far to drive at that time of day, so I opted to go instead to Eger, on the western edge of the Biikks, rather than Lillafured, farther east.

I took the turnoff for Eger, a dark green Toyota Camry pulled off at the same time, and pretty much stayed with me right into the city.

Czech frontier towns of Asch and Eger, which jutted into German territory.

My Colonel was Sandy Leslie, a brother of Leslie of Balquhain, him that stuck Wallenstein at Eger, but a man of honester disposition and a good Protestant.

The eger travelled slowly in its passage, changing the smooth, sparkling river to a whirl of conflicting currents, in which no boat could live--least of all that light pleasure-boat, with its toppling sail.

Boston, but I forgot his murder at Eger, and so that came to the same thing.

After they left Eger, there was something more picturesque and less thrifty in the farming among the low hills which they gradually mounted to uplands, where they tasted a mountain quality in the thin pure air.

Once as they were sauntering homeward by the brink of the turbid Eger, they came to a man lying on the grass with a pipe in his mouth, and lazily watching from under his fallen lids the cows grazing by the river-side, while in a field of scraggy wheat a file of women were reaping a belated harvest with sickles, bending wearily over to clutch the stems together and cut them with their hooked blades.

At Eger they had a memorable dinner, with so much leisure for it that they could form a life-long friendship for the old English-speaking waiter who served them, and would not suffer them to hurry themselves.

They were now running among low hills, not so picturesque as those between Eger and Nuremberg, but of much the same toylike quaintness in the villages dropped here and there in their valleys.

He started from Pilsen, with the remnant of his troops, to meet Weimar at Eger, where two Scotch Presbyterians were in command, who inspired confidence.