ow the
cirque of Gavarnie. It fed once in three months, and supplied itself by
making a very strong inspiration of its breath, whereupon every living
thing around was drawn into its maw. It was ultimately killed by making
a huge bonfire, and waking it from its torpor, when it became enraged,
and drawing a deep breath, drew the bonfire into its maw, and died in
agony.--Rev. W. Webster, _A Pyrenean Legend_ (1877).

=Served My God.= WOLSEY said, in his fall, "Had I but served my God with
half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age have left me
naked to mine enemies."--Shakespeare, _Henry VIII._ act iii. sc. 2
(1601).

SAMRAH, when he was deposed from the government of Basorah by the Caliph
Moawiyah, said, "If I had served God so well as I have served the
caliph, He would never have condemned me to all eternity."

ANTONIO PEREZ, the favorite of Philip II. of Spain, said, "Mon zele
etoit si grand vers ces benignes puissances [i.e. _Turin_] qui si j'en
eusse eu autant pour Dieu, je ne doubte point qu'il ne m'eut deja
recompens['e] de son paradis."

The earl of GOWRIE, when, in 1854, he was led to execution, said, "If I
had served God as faithfully as I have done the king [_James VI._], I
should not have come to this end."--Spotswood, _History of the Church of
Scotland_, 332, 333 (1653).

=Sesostris= (_The Modern_), Napoleon Bonaparte (1769, 1804-1815, 1821).

But where is he, the modern, mightier far,
Who, born no king, made monarchs draw his car;
The new Sesostris, whose unharnessed kings,
Freed from the bit, believe themselves with wings,
And spurn the dust o'er which they crawled of late,
Chained to the chariot of the chieftain's state?

Byron, _Age of Bronze_ (1821).

[Asterism] "Sesostris," in F['e]nelon's _T['e]l['e]maque_, is meant for
Louis XIV.

=Set'ebos=, a deity of the Patagonians.

His art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god Setebos.

Shakespeare, _The Tempest_ (1609).

The giants, when they found themselves fettered, roared like bulls,
and cried upon Setebos to help them.--Eden, _History of Travayle_.

=Seth=, a servant of the Jew at Ashby. Reuben is his fellow-servant.--Sir
W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).

=Seth Fairchild.= Young countryman, who is almost persuaded to be in love
with Isabel, the wife of his brother, Albert. Albert is killed--it is
supposed, accidentally--and Isabel, assuming t