Chapter Sganarelle to Shadukiam and Ambe-Abad of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Tabac est la passion des honnêtes gens; et qui vit sans tabac n’est pas digne de vivre. Non seulement il réjouit et purge les cerveaux humains, mais encore il instruit les ames a la vertu, et l’on apprend avec lui a devenir honnête homme…il inspire des sentiments d’honneur a tous ceux qui en prennent.—Molière: Don Juan, i. I (1665).

S. G. O., the initials of the Rev. lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, of the family of the duke of Leeds, in his letters in the Times on social and philanthropic subjects (1808–1889).

Shabby Gentil (The), the first part of a story by Thackeray, completed in 1860, under the title of The Adventures of Philip.

Shaccabac, in Blue Beard. (See SCHACABAC, p. 967.)

I have seen strange sights. I have seen Wilkinson play “Macbeth;” Mathews, “Othello;” Wrench, “George Barnwell;” Buckstone, “Iago;” Rayner, “Penruddock;” Keeley, “Shylock;” Liston, “Romeo” and “Octavian;” G. F. Cooke, “Mercutio;” John Kemble, “Archer;” Edmund Kean, clown in a pantomime; and C. Young, “Shaccabac.” —Record of a Stage Veteran.

(“Macbeth,” “Othello,” “Iago” (in Othello), “Shylock” (Merchant of Venice), “Romeo” and “Mercutio” (in Romeo and Juliet), all by Shakespeare; “George Barnwell” (Lillo’s tragedy so called); “Penruddock” (in The Wheel of Fortune, by Cumberland); “Octavian” (in Colman’s drama so called); “Archer” (in The Beaux’ Stratagem, by Farquhar).)

Shaddai (King), who made war upon Diabolus for the regaining of Mansoul.—Bunyan: The Holy War (1682).

Shade (To fight in the). Dieneces [Di. en. e. seez], the Spartan, being told that the army of the Persians was so numerous that their arrows would shut out the sun, replied, “Thank the gods! we shall then fight in the shade.”

Shadow (Simon), one of the recruits of the army of sir John Falstaff. “A half-faced fellow,” so thin that sir John said, “a foeman might as well level his gun at the edge of a penknife” as at such a starveling.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iii. sc. 2 (1598).

Shadow. The man without a shadow, Peter Schlemihl. (See SCHLEMIHL, p. 968.)

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were cast, by the command of Nebuchadnezzar, into a fiery furnace, but received no injury, although the furnace was made so hot that the heat thereof “slew those men” that took them to the furnace.—Dan. iii. 22.

By Nimrod’s order, Abraham was bound and cast into a huge fire at Cûtha; but he was preserved from injury by the angel Gabriel, and only the cords which bound him were burnt. Yet so intense was the heat that above 2000 men were consumed thereby. (See Gospel of Barnabas, xxviii.; and Morgan: Mahometanism Explained, V. i. 4.)

This is one of the commonest miracles in the Lives of the saints. It is told of St. Alexander, Eventius, and Theodulus; it is told of the women who anointed themselves with the blood of St. Blaise; it is told of St. Faustinus and St. Jovita; it is told of a young Jewish lad after partaking of the eucharist; it is told of St. Mamas; it is told of St. Placidus; it is told of St. Vitus, and of very many more, given with authorities and details in my Dictionary of Miracles (1884).

Shadukiam and Ambe-Abad the abodes of the peris.