peas and
stewed apples.
Dr. Hancock prescribed cold water and stewed prunes.
Dr. Rezio, of Barataria, allowed Sancho Panza to eat "a few wafers and a
thin slice or two of quince."--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iii. 10
(1615).
=Sansculottes= (3 _syl._), a low, riff-raff party in the great French
Revolution, so shabby in dress that they were termed "the trouser-less."
The _culotte_ is the breeches, called _braeck_ by the ancient Gauls, and
_hauts-de-chausses_ in the reign of Charles IX.
=Sansculottism=, red republicanism, or the revolutionary platform of the
Sansculottes.
The duke of Brunswick, at the head of a large army, invaded France
to restore Louis XVI. to the throne, and save legitimacy from the
sacrilegious hands of sansculottism.--G. H. Lewes, _Story of
Goethe's Life_.
_Literary Sansculottism_, literature of a low character, like that of
the "Minerva Press," the "Leipsic Fair," "Hollywell Street," "Grub
Street," and so on.
=Sansfoy=, a "faithless Saracen," who attacked the Red Cross Knight, but
was slain by him. "He cared for neither God nor man." Sansfoy
personifies infidelity.
Sansfoy, full large of limb and every joint
He was, and car[:e]d not for God or man a point.
Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. 2 (1590).
=Sansjoy=, brother of Sansfoy. When he came to the court of Lucif[)e]ra,
he noticed the shield of Sansfoy on the arm of the Red Cross Knight, and
his rage was so great that he was with difficulty restrained from
running on the champion there and then, but Lucifera bade him defer the
combat to the following day. Next day, the fight began, but just as the
Red Cross Knight was about to deal his adversary a death-blow, Sansjoy
was enveloped in a thick cloud, and carried off in the chariot of Night
to the infernal regions, where AEsculapius healed him of his
wounds.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. 4, 5 (1590).
(The reader will doubtless call to mind the combat of Menal[=a]os and
Paris, and remember how the Trojan was invested in a cloud and carried
off by Venus under similar circumstances.--Homer, _Iliad_, iii.)
=Sansloy= ("_superstition_"), the brother of Sansfoy and Sansjoy. He
carried off Una to the wilderness, but when the fauns and satyrs came to
her rescue, he saved himself by flight.
[Asterism] The meaning of this allegory is this; Una (_truth_),
separated from St. George (_holiness_), is deceived by Hypocrisy; and
immediately Truth
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