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Eagle (in funerals)

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The Romans used to let an eagle fly from the funeral pile of a deceased emperor. Dryden alludes to this custom in his stanzas on Oliver Cromwell after his funeral, when he says, “Officious haste did let too soon th sacred eagle fly.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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E Pluribus Unum (Latin)
Eager
Eagle (in royal banners)
Eagle
Eagle (in funerals)
Eagle
Eagle (for lecterns in churches)
Eagle (in phrases)
Eagle
Eagle
Eagle
Eagle-stones
Ear. (Anglo-Saxon, eáre.)
Ear-finger
Ear-marked