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Sulky (Mr.), executor of Mr. Warren, and partner in Dornton’s bank. With a sulky, grumpy exterior, he has a kind heart, and is strictly honest. When Dornton is brought to the brink of ruin by his son’s extravagance, Sulky comes nobly forward to the rescue. (See Silky, p, 1007.)—Holcroft: The Road to Ruin (1792).

And oh! for monopoly. What a blest day,
When the lank and the silk shall, in fond combination
(Like Sulky and Silky, that pair in the play),
Cry out with one voice for “high rents” and “starvation”!

Moore: Ode to the Goddess Ceres (1806).

Sullen (Squire), son of lady Bountiful by her first husband. He married the sister of sir Charles Freeman, but after fourteen months their tempers and dispositions were found so incompatible that they mutually agreed to a divorce.

He says little, thinks less, and does nothing at all. Faith! but he’s a man of great estate, and values nobody.—Act. i. 1.

Parson Trulliber, sir Wilful Witwould, sir Francis Wronghead, squire Western, squire Sullen,—such were the people who composed the main strength of the tory party for sixty years after the Revolution.— Macaulay.

(“Parson Trulliber,” in Joseph Andrews (by Fielding); “sir Wilful Witwould,” in The Way of the World (Congreve); “sir Francis Wronghead,” in The Provoked Hushand (by Cibber); “squire Western,” in Tom Jones (by Fielding).)

Mrs. Sullen, sister of sir Charles Freeman, and wife of squire Sullen. They had been married fourteen months when they agreed mutually to a separation, for in no one single point was there any compatibility between them. The squire was sullen, the lady sprightly; he could not drink tea with her, and she could not drink ale with him; he hated ombre and picquet, she hated cock-fighting and racing; he would not dance, and she would not hunt. When squire Sullen separated from his wife, he was obliged to return the £20,000 which he had received with her as a dowry.—Farquhar: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707).

Sul-Malla, daughter of Conmor king of Inis-Huna and his wife Clun-galo. Disguised as a warrior, Sul- Malla follows Cathmor to the war; but Cathmor, walking his rounds, discovers Sul-Malla asleep, falls in love with her, but exclaims, “This is no time for love.” He strikes his shield to rouse the host to battle, and is slain by Fingal. The sequel of Sul-Malla is not given.

Clun-galo came; she missed the maid. “Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters from the mossy rock, saw you the blue-eyed fair? Are her steps on grassy Lumon; near the bed of roses? Ah, me! I behold her bow in the hall. Where art thou, beam of light?”—Ossian: Temora, vi.

(This has been set to music by sir H. Bishop.)

Sultan’s Horse (The). According to tradition, nothing will grow where the sultan’s horse treads.

Byzantians boast that on the clod
Where once the sultan’s horse hath trod,
Grows neither grass, nor shrub, nor tree.

Swift: Pethox the Great (1723).

Summer, one of the poems in Thomson’s Seasons (1727).

Summer King, Amadeus of Spain.