As it appeared from Dale's narration, the soldier was at first willing to accept his licking in a sportsmanlike spirit, was indeed quite ready to admit that he had been the offending party; but injudicious friends-secret enemies of Dale perhaps-had Egged him on to take out a summons for assault.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
In July, Prince Leopold accepted the crown, Egged on by Bismarck, and with the fiction of the approval of King William as head of the Hohenzollerns, as distinguished from his position as King of Prussia.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
That it was in the first Garden of Eden that man had made the mistake of listening to woman; that it was Eve who had Egged Adam into eating that apple because a woman was never satisfied to leave well enough alone.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton