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White Bird (The)

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Conscience, or the soul of man. The Mahometans have preserved the old Roman idea in the doctrine that the souls of the just lie under the throne of God, like white birds, till the resurrection morn.

“A white bird, she told him once … he must carry on his bosom across a crowded public place—his own soul was like that.”—Pater: Marius the Epicurean. chap. ii.

 

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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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Whiskers
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Whistle (verb)
Whistle Down the Wind (To)
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White Bird (The)
White Brethren or White-clad Brethren
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