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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

LOOKING-EGG

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00I would like to know the exact meaning of this "looking-egg" I have read on the Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley":02br
00 'Long ago at Easter I had a LOOKING-EGG. Peering in a little porthole at the end, I saw a lovely little farm, a kind of dream farm, (...) I regarded this as a fairy-tale farm gnomes sitting under toadstools.'02br
00 It seems that refers to a dream or a vision "I had", isn't?02br
00 Thanks in advance, Jo. 0-
  

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0 In the last century, one form of Easter egg was a real egg (hen, duck, goose, whatever) from which the contents were removed. Then a small image or scene was inserted. You looked through the pinprick hole at one end and saw the scene.

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  • 0 In the last century, one form of Easter egg was a real egg (hen, duck, goose, whatever) from which the contents were removed.
  • Then a small image or scene was inserted.
  • You looked through the pinprick hole at one end and saw the scene.
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0 In the last century, one form of Easter egg was a real egg (hen, duck, goose, whatever) from which the contents were removed. Then a small image or scene was inserted. You looked through the pinprick hole at one end and saw the scene. Alison Uttley describes one in an essay about growing up in Derbyshire before the First World War.0-
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Amazingly enough, I was using the internet to ask the same question about the same sentence! Glad to have received a quick answer!
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Thanks! I was searching this on the internet
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trying to find that out anyone know
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Have you read this complete thread?
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Hi friends I have seen in dream I am looking eggs and breaking one egg .

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I remember these from the late 1940s/early 50s. They were a hard sugar shell in the shape of an egg which were translucent and let light through on to a miniature scene inside. Fascinating when you are very small.
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You probably will never see this message. Since it come 13 years after asked. I had a looking egg as a small child that I often think about. I was a super egg, about 6 inches long and about 3 inches round. It is my of two half’s and glued together with colored royal icing, with pretty sugar flowers. It had a little hole at the skinny end that you can peek into. Inside would be a little scene

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