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 I take my shoes from the shoemaker and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest’ (Goldsmith), ii. 214.

SHOES.  ’Mankind could do better without your books than without my shoes,’ i. 448.

SHOOT.  ‘You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another,’ ii. 450;
  ‘You have set him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,’
iv. 83.

SHOOTERS.  ‘Where there are many shooters, some will hit,’ iii. 254.

SHORT-HAND.  ‘A long head is as good as short-hand’ (Mrs. Thrale), iv. 166.

SHOT.  ’He is afraid of being shot getting into a house, or hanged when he has got out of it,’ iv. 127.

SICK.  ’Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of both,’ iii. 57;
  ‘To a sick man what is the public?’ iv. 260, n. 2.

SIEVE.  ’Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding.  It is stopping one hole in a sieve,’ iii. 300.

SINNING.  ‘The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning’ (Dr. Barrowby), iv. 292.

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.  ’Let’s go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky.  But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,’ iv. 20.

SLIGHT.  ’If it is a slight man and a slight thing you may [laugh at a man to his face], for you take nothing valuable from him,’ iii. 338.

SLUT.  ’She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and thief,’ iv. 103.

SMALL.  ‘Small certainties are the bane of men of talents’ (Strahan), ii. 323.

SMILE.  ‘Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,’ ii. 79.

SOBER.  ’I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him,’ ii. 188.

SOCIETY.  ’He puts something into our society and takes nothing out of it,’ v. 178.

SOCKET.  ’The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,’ iii. 423.

SOFT.  ’Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,’ iv. 323.

SOLDIERS.  ‘Soldiers die scattering bullets,’ v. 240.

SOLEMNITY.  ’There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a professional man,’ iv. 310.

SOLITARY.  ‘Be not solitary, be not idle’ (Burton), iii. 415.

SOLITUDE.  ‘This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,’ iv. 147, n. 2.

SORROW.  ‘There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,’ iii. 137, n. 1.