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addressed him as "Sigambrian," and said that "he must henceforth set at naught what he had hitherto worshipped, and worship what he had hitherto set at naught." =Salisbury= (_Earl of_), William Longsword, natural son of Henry II. and Jane Clifford, "The Fair Rosamond."--Shakespeare, _King John_ (1596); Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Sallust of France= (_The_). C['e]sar Vichard (1639-1692) was so called by Voltaire. =Salmigondin=, or "Salmygondin," a lordship of Dipsody, given by Pantagruel to Panurge (2 _syl._). Alcofribas, who had resided six months in the giant's mouth without his knowing it, was made castellan of the castle.--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, ii. 32; iii. 2 (1533-45). The lordship of Salmygodin was worth 67 million pounds sterling, per annum, in "certain rent," and an annual revenue for locusts and periwinkles, varying from [pounds]24,357 to 12 millions in a good year, when the exports of locusts and periwinkles were flourishing. Panurge, however, could not make the two ends meet. At the close of "less than fourteen days" he had forestalled three years' rent and revenue, and had to apply to Pantagruel to pay his debts.--_Pantagruel_, iii. 2. =Salmo'neus= (3 _syl._), king of Elis, wishing to be thought a god, used to imitate thunder and lightning by driving his chariot over a brazen bridge, and darting burning torches on every side. He was killed by lightning for his impiety and folly[TN-153] Salmoneus, who while he his carroach drave Over the brazen bridge of Elis' stream, And did with artificial thunder brave Jove, till he pierced him with a lightning beam. Lord Brooke, _Treatise on Monarchie_, vi. It was to be the literary Salmoneus of the political Jupiter.--Lord Lytton. =Sally in our Alley=, subject of popular ballad of same name, by Henry Carew (1663-1743). =Sally= (_red haired_), remembered love of a poor pioneer, whom the Indians have scalped and blinded. As he lies by the camp-fire, he bemoans his hard lot and wishes he had been left to die. "It's twice dead not to see." Rose Terry Cooke, _Poems_ (1888). _Sally_ (_Kittredge_), black-eyed, rosy-cheeked country girl, Mara Linnotti's friend, and finally, the wife of Moses Pennell.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _The Pearl of Orr's Island_ (1860). =Salome and the Baptist.= When Salom[^e] delivered the head of John the
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