Meanings of hard egg in English

I worked up from the mines myself, and I'm a hard egg.

I then, much refreshed, ate my bread and hard egg.

At that time I had been living very frequently on little more than one hard egg per day.

Walking over to him, David ignored the gun as he took the stone- hard egg sac from the momentarily petrified Oram.

Cake, hard eggs, sausage-rolls, currants, lemon cheese-cakes, raisins, and cold apple dumplings.

The King and Monsieur were very fond of hard eggs.

I told him that he had forgotten hard eggs, anchovies, and prepared vinegar to dress a salad.

" Hard eggs, those two; that engineer doesn't belong in their company."

"And we shall neither have CHARQUI, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?"

As a general thing the Sauviats ate herrings, dried peas, cheese, hard eggs in salad, vegetables seasoned in the cheapest manner.

The dried beef, hard eggs, grilled MOJARRAS, sparrows, and roast HILGUEROS, made one of those gala feasts the memory of which is imperishable.