Chapter Scalping to Schahriah of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

1. Quicumque regno fidit, et magna potens.

2. O Musa, gressum quæ volens tratis claudum.

Or in English—

1. A little onward lend thy guiding hand.

2. He unsuspicious led him; when Samson…

(I is the usual iambic metre, 2 the scazon.)

Sceaf [Sheef], one of the ancestors of Woden. So called because in infancy he was laid on a wheatsheaf, and cast adrift in a boat; the boat stranded on the shores of Sleswig, and the infant, being considered a gift from the gods, was brought up for a future king.—Beowulf (an Anglo-Saxon epic, sixth century).

Scenes of Clerical Life, a series of tales by George Eliot (Mrs. J. W. Cross, 1858).

Scepticism (Father of Modern), Pierre Bayle (1647–1706).

Schacabac, “the hare-lipped,” a man reduced to the point of starvation, invited to a feast by the rich Barmecide. (For the tale, see BARMECIDE FEAST, p. 90.) —Arabian Nights (“The Barber’s Sixth Brother”). (See SHACCABAC.)

Schahriah, sultan of Persia. His wife being unfaithful, and his brother’s wife too. Schahriah imagined that no woman was virtuous. He resolved, therefore, to marry a fresh wife every night, and to have her strangled at daybreak. Scheherazadê, the vizier’s daughter, married him notwithstanding; and contrived, an hour before daybreak, to begin a story to her sister in the sultan’s hearing, always breaking off before the story was finished. The sultan got interested in these tales; and, after a thousand and one nights, revoked his decree, and found in Scheherazadê a faithful, intelligent, and loving wife.—Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.