Chapter Sterry to Stolen Kisses of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(6) Cooke (G. F.), everything drinkable.

(7) Disraeli (lord Beaconsfield), champagne jelly.

(8) Emery, cold brandy-and-water.

(9) Erskine (Lord), opium in large doses.

(10) Gladstone (W. E.), an egg beaten up in sherry.

(11) Henderson, gum arabic and sherry.

(12) Hobbes, only cold water.

(13) Incledon, madeira.

(14) Jordan (Mrs.), calves’-foot jelly dissolved in warm sherry.

(15) Kean (Edmund), beef-tea, cold brandy.

(16) Kemble (John), opium.

(17) Lewis, mulled wine and oysters.

(18) Newton smoked incessantly.

(19) Oxberry, strong tea.

(20) Pope, strong coffee.

(21) Schiller required to sit over a table deeply impregnated with the smell of apples. He stimulated his brain with coffee and champagne.

(22) Siddons (Mrs.), porter, not “stout.”

(23) Smith (William) drank strong coffee.

(24) Wedderburne (the first lord Ashburton) used to place a blister on his chest when he had to make a great speech. Dr. Paris: Pharmacologia (1819).

(25) Wood (Mrs.) drank draught porter.

Stinkomalee. So Theodore Hook called the London University. The word was suggested by “Trincomalee” (in Ceylon), a name before the public at the time. Hook hated the “University,” because it admitted students of all denominations.

Only look at Stinkomalee and King’s College. Activity, union, craft, indomitable perseverance on the one side; indolence, indecision, internal distrust and jealousies, calf-like simplicity, and cowardice intolerable on the other.—Wilson: Noctes Ambrosiancæ (1822–36).

Stirrups were unknown to the ancients; they were used sometimes in the fifth century, but were not common till the twelfth.

In the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (121-180), now on the Capitoline Hill, in Rome, the rider very properly is represented without stirrups.