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<p>Nice one Stuart!<br>
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<p>Out of curiosity I Googled <Virginia Woolf + lectern>.
Didn't get any eagles apart from the ones listed by Stuart, but I
did get this.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/woolfdesk">https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/woolfdesk</a></p>
<p>Never knew that Woolf wrote while standing up. Now I do.</p>
<p>Jeremy H</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27.10.2020 11:25, Stuart N. Clarke
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<div>“the subservient eagle bears up for inspection the
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<div>the ‘brass eagle carrying the Bible on its back’
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<div>‘a Bible spread on the back of the brass eagle’ (W)</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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