Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses,
but in Scotland supports the people,' i. 294, n. 8;
'Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England,' iii. 248;
'Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland,' ii. 75;
'Things which grow wild here must be cultivated with great care in
Scotland. Pray, now, are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfection?'
ii. 77;
'Why so is Scotland _your_ native place,' ii. 52.

SCOUNDREL. 'Fludyer turned out a scoundrel, a Whig,' ii. 444;
'I told her she was a scoundrel' (a carpenter), ii. 456, n. 3;
'Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam,' iii. 1;
'Sir, he was a scoundrel and coward,' i. 268.

SCREEN. 'He stood as a screen between me and death' (Swift), iii.
441, n. 3.

SCRIBBLING. 'The worst way of being intimate is by scribbling,' v.
93.

SCRUPLES. 'Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples,' &c., ii. 72,
n. 1.

SEE. 'Let us endeavour to see things as they are,' i. 339.

_Semel Baro semper Baro_ (Boswell), i. 492, n. 1.

SEND. 'Nay, Sir; we'll send you to him,' iii. 315.

SENSATION. 'Sensation is sensation,' v. 95.

SENSE. 'He grasps more sense than he can hold,' iv. 98:
'Nay, Sir, it was not the _wine_ that made your head ache, but the
_sense_ that I put into it,' iii. 381.

SERENITY. 'The serenity that is not felt it can be no virtue to
feign,' iv. 395.

SEVERITY. 'Severity is not the way to govern either boys or men'
(Lord Mansfield), ii. 186.

SHADOWY. 'Why, Sir, something of a shadowy being,' ii. 178.

SHALLOWS. 'All shallows are clear,' v. 44, n. 3.

SHERRY. 'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have
taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such
an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,' i. 453.

SHIFT. 'As long as you have the use of your tongue and your pen,
never, Sir, be reduced to that shift,' iv. 190, n. 2.

SHINE. 'You shine, indeed, but it is by being ground,' iii. 386.

SHIP. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being
drowned,' i. 348; v. 137;
'It is getting on horseback in a ship' (Hierocles), v. 308.

SHIRT. 'It is like a shirt made for a man when he was a child and
enlarged always as he grows older,' v. 217.

SHIVER. 'Why do you shiver?' i. 462.

SHOE. 'Had the girl in _The Mourning Bride_ said she could not cast
her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would
not have aided the idea, but weakened it,' ii. 87.

SHOEMAKER. 'As