, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

=Sheffield= (_The Bard of_), James Montgomery, author of _The Wanderer of
Switzerland_, etc. (1771-1854).

With broken lyre and cheek serenely pale,
Lo! Sad Alcaens wanders down the vale ...
O'er his lost works let classic Sheffield weep;
May no rude hand disturb their early sleep!

Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809).

=Sheila=, pretty, simple-hearted girl, whose father is a magnate among his
neighbors in the Orkney Islands. Sheila is won by a Londoner--Lavender
by name--who visits her island home. He transplants the Northern wild
flower into a London home, where she pines for a while, homesick and
heart-sick. In time, her sound sense enables her to adjust herself to
altered conditions, and her stronger nature raises and ennobles her
husband's.--William Black, _A Princess of Thul[`e]_.

=Shelby= (_Mr._), Uncle Tom's first master. Being in commercial
difficulties, he was obliged to sell his faithful slave. His son
afterwards endeavored to buy Uncle Tom back again, but found that he had
been whipped to death by the villain Legree.--Harriet Beecher Stowe,
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_ (1852).

=Shell= (_A_). Amongst the ancient Gaels a shell was emblematic of peace.
Hence when Bosmi'na, Fingal's daughter, was sent to propitiate King
Erragon, who had invaded Morven, she carried with her a "sparkling shell
as a symbol of peace, and a golden arrow as a symbol of war."--Ossian,
_The Battle of Lora_.

=Shells=, _i.e._, hospitality. "Semo, king of shells" ("hospitality").
When Cuthullin invites Swaran to a banquet, his messenger says,
"Cuthullin gives the joy of shells; come and partake the feast of Erin's
blue-eyed chief." The ancient Gaels drank from shells; and hence such
phrases as "chief of shells," "hall of shells," "king of shells," etc.
(king of hospitality). "To rejoice in the shell" is to feast sumptuously
and drink freely.

=Shemus-an-Snachad=, or "James of the Needle," M'Ivor's tailor at
Edinburgh.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.)

=Shepheardes Calendar= (_The_), twelve eclogues in various metres, by
Spenser, one for each month. _January_: Colin Clout (_Spenser_) bewails
that Rosalind does not return his love, and compares his forlorn
condition to the season itself. _February_: Cuddy, a lad, complains of
the cold, and Thenot laments the degeneracy of pastoral life. _March_:
Willie and Thomalin discourse of love (described as a