qui en
prennent.--Moli[`e]re, _Don Juan_, i. 1 (1665).
=Shaccabac=, in _Blue Beard_. (See SCHACABAC.)
I have seen strange sights. I have seen Wilkinson play "Macbeth;"
Matthews, "Othello;" Wrench, "George Barnwell;" Buckstone, "Iago;"
Rayner, "Penruddock;" Keeley, "Shylock;" Liston, "Romeo" and
"Octavian;" G. F. Cooke, "Mercutio;" John Kemble, "Archer;" Edmund
Kean, clown in a pantomine; and C. Young, "Shaccabac."--_Record of
a Stage Veteran._
"Macbeth," "Othello," "Iago" (in _Othello_), "Shylock" (_Merchant of
Venice_), "Romeo" and "Mercutio" (in _Romeo and Juliet_), all by
Shakespeare: "George Barnwell" (Lillo's tragedy so called); "Penruddock"
(in _The Wheel of Fortune_), by Cumberland);[TN-168] "Octavian" (in
Colman's drama so called); "Archer" (in _The Beaux' Stratagem_, by
Farquhar).
=Shackfords= (_The_). _Lemuel Shackford_, "a hard, avaricious, passionate
man, holding his own way remorselessly.... A prominent character because
of his wealth, endless lawsuits and eccentricity."
_Richard Shackford_, nephew of _Lemuel_, a frank, whole-souled young
fellow, intent upon his profession, but willing to make everybody else
comfortable as he wins his way up. He is accused, upon circumstantial
evidence, of the murder of his uncle, but is extricated by his own
sagacity, which enables him to fix the crime upon the true assassin.--T.
B. Aldrich, _The Stillwater Tragedy_ (1880).
=Shaddai= (_King_), who made war upon Diabolus for the regaining of
Mansoul.--John Bunyan, _The Holy War_ (1682).
=Shade= (_To fight in the_). Dieneces [_Di.en'.e.seez_], the Spartan,
being told that the army of the Persians was so numerous that their
arrows would shut out the sun, replied, "Thank the gods! we shall then
fight in the shade."
=Shadow= (_Simon_), one of the recruits of the army of Sir John Falstaff.
"A half-faced fellow," so thin that Sir John said, "A foeman might as
well level his gun at the edge of a penknife" as at such a
starveling.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV._ act iii. sc. 2 (1598).
=Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego= were cast, by the command of
Nebuchadnezzar, into a fiery furnace, but received no injury, although
the furnace was made so hot that the heat thereof "slew those men" that
took them to the furnace.-_Dan._ iii. 22.
By Nimrod's order, Abraham was bound and cast into a huge fire at
C[^u]tha; but he was preserved from injury by the angel Gabriel, and
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