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yolkStore of food, mostly in the form of fats and proteins, found in the eggs of many animals. It provides nourishment for the growing embryo. |
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But in place of the white and the yolk of the egg, a little yellow Chick, fluffy and gay and smiling, escaped from it. Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,' replied Mr Mantalini; 'for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit. And he arrived at the laying-yard and caught Jerry, red-pawed and red-mouthed, in the midst of his fourth kill of an egg-layer, the raw yellow yolk of the portion of one egg, plastered by Agno to represent many eggs, still about his eyes and above his eyes to the bulge of his forehead. |
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