Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama Part 135

(The Thamudites were idolaters, and Saleh, the prophet, was sent to bring them back to the worship of Jehovah.)

_Saleh's Camel._ The camel thus miraculously produced, used to go about the town, crying aloud, "Ho! every one that wanteth milk, let him come, and I will give it him."--Sale, _Al Koran_, vii. notes. (See _Isaiah_ lv. 1).

_Saleh_, a son of Faras'che (3 _syl._) queen of a powerful under-sea empire. His sister was Gulna're (3 _syl._), empress of Persia. Saleh asked the king of Samandal, another under-sea emperor, to give his daughter, Giauha're, in marriage to Prince Beder, son of Gulnare; but the proud, pa.s.sionate despot ordered the prince's head to be cut off for such presumptuous insolence. However, Saleh made his escape, invaded Samandal, took the king prisoner, and the marriage between Beder and the Princess Giauhare was duly celebrated.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Beder and Giauhare").

=Sa'lem=, a young seraph, one of the two tutelar angels of the Virgin Mary and of John the Divine, "for G.o.d had given to John two tutelar angels, the chief of whom was Raph'ael, one of the most exalted seraphs of the hierarchy of heaven."--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iii. (1748).

=Sal'emal=, the preserver in sickness, one of the four G.o.ds of the Adites (2 _syl._).--D'Herbelot, _Bibliotheques Orientale_[TN-152] (1697).

=Salian Franks.= So called from the Isala or Yssel, in Holland. They were a branch of the Sicambri; hence, when Clovis was baptized at Rheims, the old prelate addressed him as "Sigambrian," and said that "he must henceforth set at naught what he had hitherto worshipped, and worship what he had hitherto set at naught."

=Salisbury= (_Earl of_), William Longsword, natural son of Henry II. and Jane Clifford, "The Fair Rosamond."--Shakespeare, _King John_ (1596); Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=Sall.u.s.t of France= (_The_). Cesar Vichard (1639-1692) was so called by Voltaire.

=Salmigondin=, or "Salmygondin," a lordship of Dipsody, given by Pantagruel to Panurge (2 _syl._). Alcofribas, who had resided six months in the giant's mouth without his knowing it, was made castellan of the castle.--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, ii. 32; iii. 2 (1533-45).

The lordship of SalmyG.o.din was worth 67 million pounds sterling, per annum, in "certain rent," and an annual revenue for locusts and periwinkles, varying from 24,357 to 12 millions in a good year, when the exports of locusts and periwinkles were flourishing.

Panurge, however, could not make the two ends meet. At the close of "less than fourteen days" he had forestalled three years' rent and revenue, and had to apply to Pantagruel to pay his debts.--_Pantagruel_, iii. 2.

=Salmo'neus= (3 _syl._), king of Elis, wishing to be thought a G.o.d, used to imitate thunder and lightning by driving his chariot over a brazen bridge, and darting burning torches on every side. He was killed by lightning for his impiety and folly[TN-153]

Salmoneus, who while he his carroach drave Over the brazen bridge of Elis' stream, And did with artificial thunder brave Jove, till he pierced him with a lightning beam.

Lord Brooke, _Treatise on Monarchie_, vi.

It was to be the literary Salmoneus of the political Jupiter.--Lord Lytton.

=Sally in our Alley=, subject of popular ballad of same name, by Henry Carew (1663-1743).

=Sally= (_red haired_), remembered love of a poor pioneer, whom the Indians have scalped and blinded. As he lies by the camp-fire, he bemoans his hard lot and wishes he had been left to die.

"It's twice dead not to see."

Rose Terry Cooke, _Poems_ (1888).

_Sally_ (_Kittredge_), black-eyed, rosy-cheeked country girl, Mara Linnotti's friend, and finally, the wife of Moses Pennell.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _The Pearl of Orr's Island_ (1860).

=Salome and the Baptist.= When Salome delivered the head of John the Baptist to her mother, Herodias pulled out the tongue and stabbed it with her bodkin.

When the head of Cicero was delivered to Marc Antony, his wife, Fulvia, pulled out the tongue and stabbed it repeatedly with her bodkin.

=Salvage Knight= (_The_), Sir Arthegal, called Artegal, from bk. iv. 6.

The hero of bk. v. (_Justice_).--Spenser, _Faery Queen_ (1596).

=Salva'tor Rosa= (_The English_)[TN-154] John Hamilton Mortimer (1741-1779.[TN-155]

=Salvato're= (4 _syl._), Salva'tor Rosa, an Italian painter, especially noted for his scenes of brigands, etc. (1615-1673).

But, ever and anon, to soothe your vision, Fatigued with these hereditary glories, There rose a Carlo Dolce or a t.i.tian, Or wilder group of savage Salvatore's.

Byron, _Don Juan_, xiii. 71 (1824).

=Sam=, a gentleman, the friend of Francis'co.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons. Thomas_ (1619).

_Sam_; one of the Know-Nothings, or Native American party. One of "Uncle Sam's" sons.

_Sam_ (_d.i.c.ky_), a Liverpool man.

_Sam_ (_Uncle_), the United States of North America, or rather the government of the states personified. So called from Samuel Wilson, uncle of Ebenezer Wilson. Ebenezer was inspector of Elbert Anderson's store on the Hudson, and Samuel superintended the workmen. The stores were marked EA. US. ("Elbert Anderson, United States"), but the workmen insisted that US. stood for Uncle[TN-156] Sam."--Mr. Frost.

=Sam Kimper.= Reformed convict who sets himself earnestly to work to lead a new life, toiling steadily at the shoemaker's bench, and _acting_ his new religion. His only creed is to believe simply in the Saviour of sinners. "He" (the chaplain) "says to me--'Just believe in Jesus like you do in Andrew Jackson and you'll be right in the course of time.

Believe that what He said was true, an' get your mind full of what He said, an' _keep it full_.'"--John Habberton, _All He Knew_ (1890).

=Sam Silverquill=, one of the prisoners at Portanferry.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).

=Sam Weller=, servant of Mr. Pickwick. The impersonation of the shrewdness, quaint humor, and best qualities of c.o.c.kney low life.--C.

d.i.c.kens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836).

=Sa'mael= (3 _syl._), the prince of demons, who, in the guise of a serpant,[TN-157] tempted Eve in paradise. (See SAMIEL.)

=Samarcand Apple=, a perfect panacea of all diseases. It was bought by Prince Ahmed, and was instrumental in restoring Nouroun'nihar to perfect health, although at the very point of death.

In fact sir, there is no disease, however painful or dangerous, whether fever, pleurisy, plague, or any other disorder, but it will instantly cure; and that in the easiest possible way; it is simply to make the sick person smell of the apple.--_Arabian Nights_, ("Ahmed and Pari-Banou").

=Sam'benites= [_Sam'.be.neetz_], persons dressed in the _sambenito_, a yellow coat without sleeves, having devils painted on it. The sambenito was worn by "heretics" on their way to execution.

And blow us up i' the open streets.

Disguised in rumps, like sambenites.