 | Military art and science - 1889 - 712 pages
...volumes of the London Gentleman's Magaziiie, to which Sir John Prestwich was an occasional contributor). For the crest, over the head of the eagle which appears above the shield, is a glory breaking through a cloud, and surrounding a cluster of stars that form a constellation.... | |
 | George Thacher Balch - Patriotism - 1890 - 174 pages
...bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll inscribed with this motto : " E PLURIBUS UNUM." For the Crest: over the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory breaking through a cloud proper, and surrounding thirteen s ars, forming a constellation, argent, and... | |
 | United States. Department of State, Gaillard Hunt - United States - 1892 - 74 pages
...Congress, vol. 4, p. 39. rows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, "E pluribus Unum." For the CREST. Over the head of the Eagle,...forming a constellation, argent, on an azure field. REVERSE. A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith, an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1893 - 276 pages
...bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, " K pluribus Unum." For the CREST. Over the head of the Eagle,...forming a constellation, argent, on an azure field. REVERSE. A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith, an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper.... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1893 - 608 pages
...bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto E Pluribus Unum. " For the CREST — Over the head of the eagle,...thirteen stars forming a constellation, argent, on a azure field. " REVERSE — A pyramid unfinished. GRKAT SEAL OF 1782. " In the zenith an eye in a... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1894 - 866 pages
...of thirteen arrows, all proper ; and in his beak a seroll, inseribed with this motto, ' E PLURIBUS UNUM.' " For the CREST : over the head of the eagle which appears above the esadcheon, a glory breaking through a eloud proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, forming a constellation,... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1895 - 686 pages
...bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, ' E Pluribus Unum.' "For the crest. Over the head of the eagle,...forming a constellation, argent on an azure field. "Reverse. A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith, an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper.... | |
 | John Woodward - Devices (Heraldry). - 1896 - 626 pages
...inscribed with the motto " E PLURIBUS UNU.M." For the crest (!) Over the head of the eagle a glory bursting through a cloud proper, and surrounding thirteen stars,...forming a constellation argent, on an azure field. (Cf. Plate XXVIII., fig. 2.) The stars, like the bundle of arrows, were then equal in number to that... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 918 pages
...a bundle of 13 arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, 'E pluribus unum.' For the CREST: over the head of the eagle which...breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding 13 stars, forming a constellation argent on an azure field. REVERSE, a pyramid unfinished. In the zenith,... | |
 | Charles Adiel Lewis Totten - Heraldry - 1897 - 364 pages
...phraseology of the statute respecting the rays which surround the constellation. The statute reads: " For the crest over the head of the Eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a Glory breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, forming a constellation argent and... | |
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... gules; a chief, azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto,... 
