What is "eggs on"

Usage examples of "eggs on".

The muttas hatched their eggs on the ground, as their ancestors had always done, which made them vulnerable to opportunistic predators like the burrowers.

I cannot see that these actions, performed without experience by the young, and in nearly the same manner by each individual, performed with eager delight by each breed, and without the end being known, - for the young pointer can no more know that he points to aid his master, than the white butterfly knows why she lays her eggs on the leaf of the cabbage, - I cannot see that these actions differ essentially from true instincts.

She also was not certain what good it would do to drop eggs on the goblins, unless the intent was to blind the enemy with the splats of whites and yokes.

Wasps that lay their eggs on caterpillars are the ones I'm most familiar with.

For breakfasts we had french toast and sausages, or there were hotcakes or waffles with bacon and scrambled eggs on the side.

But south of, say, San Antone, you knocked off a few hours from about noon to four in the afternoon, unless you felt like frying eggs on your skull with the help of that subtropical sun.

In the spring, the moth lays her eggs on the branches of fruit trees, mostly apple, but also pear, quince and walnut.

They had simply added to their nest, and, when the water had fallen again he had come down the river just as he was coming now, to find the coot with the white feather sitting on her eggs on the top of a broad, high, round platform made of woven reeds.

Orlith was carefully turning eggs on the hot sands, testing their shells with a gentle tongue.

Jaxom had a dizzying view of the eggs on the Hatching Ground, of the colored robes of those already assembled, and the array of dragon bodies, gleaming eyes and furled wings, the great, graceful, blue, green and brown hides.