Origin and history of the American flag and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 85
and discomfiture which he w^as about to bring on the haughtyking of Assyria, says, And they shall be as when a standard-bearerfainteth. Assyrian Standards.—Xineveh, the capital of Assyria, had forits device an arrow, which represented the swiftness of the Tigris,whose waters washed its walls,—the… … the first great empire of the world. Her subjects symbolized her bya turtle-dove^ and tluit bird was stamped on the coins, with an arrow on the reverse. Mossoul, built onthe ruins of Nineveh, impressedon its goods the sign of an arrowand dove; and that badge, printedon a light stuff called muslin,…
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