Citations:vuln

English citations of vuln

• 1903, The Pelican Record, page 197:

  Of many other literary references to the pelican briefest mention can be now made . The variant relations of the piety of the bird are very interesting : according to one set of legends , it is to feed its young that the pelican vulns […]

• 2012 September 26, Mehdi Hasan, ED: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

  ... no to rent rise " posters'.40 Other campaign posters featured a giant pelican - the symbol of Corpus Christi - feasting on a group of tiny human beings , with the tag line : ' The vampire pelican vulns its young to feed itself.

• 2007 May 15, Mark Oppenheimer, Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 103:

  The pelican was my high school's mascot, taken from the crest of our school's founding family. The pelican is a Christ symbol, I had been told, because according to legend it vulns itself to feed its young. I saw a second pelican […]

• 1995, Peter Maurice Daly, Leslie T. Duer, Anthony Raspa, The English Emblem Tradition: Emblematic flag devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660:

  To left a gold pelican in nest vulns itself to draw blood for its young . 0287.0 pen : A naked arm and hand from clouds on left holding an iron stilus ( pen ) pointing to an inscription : ' I Petri Cap . 2 Ve .