Chapter Salt River to Samuel of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

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Rose up from the bosom of the lake,
Clothed in white samite.

Tennyson: Morte d’Arthur (1858).

Samma, the demoniac that John “the Beloved” could not exorcise. Jesus, coming from the Mount of Olives, rebuked Satan, who quitted “the possessed,” and left him in his right mind.—

Klopstock: The Messiah, ii. (1748).

Samoed Shore (The). Samoi’eda is a province of Muscovy, contiguous to the Frozen Sea.

Now, from the north
Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore,…
Boreas and Cæcias…rend the woods, and seas
upturn.

Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 695 (1665).

SAMPSON, one of Capulet’s servants.—Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1597).

Sampson, a foolish advocate, kinsman of judge Vertaigne .—Fletcher: The Little French Lawyer (1647).

Sampson (Dominie) or Abel Sampson, tutor to Harry Bertram son of the laird of Ellangowan. One of the best creations of romance. His favourite exclamation is “Prodigious!” Dominie Sampson is very learned, simple, and green. Sir Walter describes him as “a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

His appearance puritanical. Ragged black clothes, blue worsted stockings, pewter-headed long cane.—

Guy Mannering (dramatized), i. 2.

Sampson (George), a friend of the Wilfer family. He adored Bella Wilfer, but married her youngest sister Lavinia. —Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1864).

Samson. (See HERCULES, p. 485.)

The British Samson, Thomas Topham (1710–1749).

The North American Indian Samson, Kwasind.

Samson Agonistes , “Samson the Combatant,” a sacred drama by Milton, showing Samson blinded and bound, but triumphant over his enemies, who sent for him to make sport by feats of strength on the feast of Dagon. Having amused the multitude for a time, he was allowed to rest awhile against the “grand stand,” and, twining his arms round two of the supporting pillars, he pulled the whole edifice down, and died himself in the general devastation (1632).

Samsons Crown, an achievement of great renown, which costs the life of the doer thereof. Samson’s greatest exploit was pulling down the “grand stand” occupied by the chief magnates of Philistia at the feast of Dagon. By this deed, “he slew at his death more than [all] they which he slew in his life.” —Judg. xvi. 30.

And by self-ruin seek a Samson’s crown.

Lord Brooke: Inquisition upon Fame, etc. (1554–1628).

Samuel (The Books of), two books which carry the history of the Hebrews from Eli (the high priest) almost to the close of David’s reign, about 140 years.