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=Sage of Monticello= (_The_), Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, whose country seat was at Monticello.

As from the grave where Henry sleeps, From Vernon's weeping willow, And from the gra.s.sy pall which hides The Sage of Monticello ...

Virginia, o'er thy land of slaves A warning voice is swelling.

Whittier, _Voices of Freedom_ (1836).

=Sage of Samos= (_The_), Pythagoras, a native of Samos (B.C. 584-506).

=Sages= (_The Seven_). (See SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE.)

=Sag'ittary=, a monster, half man and half beast, described as ”a terrible archer, who neighs like a horse, and with eyes of fire which strike men dead like lightning.” Any deadly shot is a sagittary.--Guido delle Colonna (thirteenth century), _Historia Troyana Prosayce Composita_ (translated by Lydgate).

The dreadful Sagittary, Appals our numbers.

Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_ (1602).

(See also _Oth.e.l.lo_, act i. sc. 1, 3. The barrack is so called from the figure of an archer over the door.)

=Sagramour le De'sirus=, a knight of the Round Table.--See _Launcelot du Lac_ and _Morte d'Arthur_.

=Sailor King= (_The_), William IV. of Great Britain (1765, 1830-1837).

=Saint= (_The_), Kang-he, of China, who a.s.sumed the name of Chin-tsou-jin (1653, 1661-1722).

=St. Aldobrand=, the n.o.ble husband of Lady Imogine, murdered by Count Bertram, her quondam lover.--C. Maturin, _Bertram_ (1816).

=St. Alme= (_Captain_), son of Darlemont, a merchant, guardian of Julio, count of Harancour. He pays his addresses to Marianne Franval, to whom he is ultimately married. Captain St. Alme is generous, high-spirited, and n.o.ble-minded.--Thomas Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785).

=St. Andre=, a fas.h.i.+onable dancing-master in the reign of Charles II.

St. Andre's feet ne'er kept more equal time.

Dryden, _MacFlecknoe_ (1682).

=St. Asaph= (_The dean of_), in the court of Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W.

Scott, _Kenilworth_ (1821).

=St. Basil Outwits the Devil.= (See SINNER SAVED.)

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