SAPPHO OF TOULOUSE 
 
 
Floraux. She is the authoress of a beau- 
tiful Ode to 8pring (1463-1513). 
 
   Sapskull, a raw Yorkshire tike, son of 
 Squire Sapskull, of Sapskull Hall. Sir 
 Penurious Muckworm wishes him to marry 
 his niece and ward, Arbella, but as Arbella 
 loves Gaylove, a young barrister, the tike 
 is played upon thus: Gaylove assumes to 
 be Muckworm, and his lad, Slango, dresses 
 up as a woman to pass for Arbella; and 
 while Sapskull "marries" Slango, Gaylove, 
 who assumes the dress and manners of 
 the Yorkshire tike, marries Arbella. Of 
 course, the trick is then discovered, and 
 Sapskull returns to the home of his father, 
 befooled but not married.-Carey, The 
 Honest Yorkshireman (1736). 
 
   Saracen (A), in Arthurian romance, 
means any unbaptized person, regardless 
of nationality. Thus, Priamus, of Tus- 
cany, is called a Saracen (pt. i. 96, 97); so 
is Sir Palomides, simply because he re- 
fused to be baptized till he had done some 
noble deed (pt. ii.).-Sir T. Malory, History 
of Prince Arthur (1470). 
 
  Sara Carroll. Devoted daughter of 
Major Carroll and firm ally of her dainty 
stepmother, Madame Carroll, in the latter's 
renewal of intercourse with her eldest son 
and concealment of his existence from her 
husband. Sara contrives that the mother 
shall be with the young man when he 
dies, and by becoming the go-between for 
the two, incurs the suspicions of her 
lover.-Constance Fenimore Woolson, For 
the Mayor. 
 
  Saragossa (The Maid qf), Augustina 
Saragossa or Zaragoza, who, in 1808, when 
the city was invested by the French, 
mounted the battery in the place of her 
lover who had been shot. Lord Byron 
 
 
says, when he was at Seville, "the maid" 
used to walk daily on the prado, decorated 
with medals and orders, by command of 
the junta. Southey, History of the Penin- 
sular War (1832). 
Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill timed tear; 
   Her chief is slain-she fills his fatal post; 
 Her fellows flee-she checks their base career; 
   The foe retires-,-she heads the sallying host. 
 .... the flying Gaul, 
 Foiled by a woman's hand before a battered 
      wall. 
            Byron, Childe Harold, i. 56 (1809). 
 
   Sardanapa'lus, king of Nineveh and 
 Assyria, noted for his luxury and volup- 
 tuousness. Arbac~s, the Mede, conspired 
 against him, and defeated him; where- 
 upon his favorite slave, Myrra, induced him 
 to immolate himself on a funeral pile. 
 The beautiful slave, having set fire to the 
 pile, leaped into the blazing mass, and 
 was burnt to death with the king, her mas- 
 ter (B.C. 817). -Byron, Sardanapalus (1619). 
 
   Sardanapa'lua of China (The), Cheo- 
tsin, who shut himself up in his palace 
with his queen, and then set fire to the 
building, that he might not fall into the 
hands of Woo-wong (B.C. 1154-1122). 
  (Cheo-tsin invented the chopsticks, and 
Woo-wong founded the Tchow dynasty.) 
 
  Sardanaparlus    of  Germany    (The), 
Wenceslas VI. or (IV.), king of Bohemia 
and emperor of Germany (1359, 1378- 
1419). 
 
  Sarell Gately. Shrewd, "capable" girl 
who "lives out" on the Heybrook farm. 
  "She was a young woman to take up respon- 
sibilities as she went along. She liked then. She 
became naturally a part, of whatever was happen- 
ing in her Troy; and wherever her temporary 
Troy might be, there was pretty sure to be some- 
thing happening.'"-A. D. T. Whitney, Odd or 
Even? (1880). 
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