SORRY.  ’Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry for it,’ ii. 436.

SPARROWS.  ’You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows, but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge,’ v. 261.

Spartam.  ‘Spartam quam nactus es orna,’ iv. 379.

SPEAK.  ’A man cannot with propriety speak of himself, except he relates simple facts,’ iii. 323.

SPEND.  ‘He has neither spirit to spend nor resolution to spare,’ iii. 317.

SPENDS.  ’A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man,’ iii. 322.

SPIRITUAL COURT.  ‘Sir, I can put her into the Spiritual Court,’ i. 101.

SPLENDOUR.  ‘Let us breakfast in splendour,’ iii. 400.

SPOILED.  ’Like sour small beer, she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled,’ v. 449, n. 1.

SPOONS.  ’If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons,’ i. 432.

STAMP.  ’I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp in the argument’ (Parr), iv. 15, n. 5.

STAND.  ’They resolved they would stand by their country,’ i. 164.

STATELY.  ’That will not be the case [i.e. you will not be imposed on] if you go to a stately shop, as I always do,’ iv. 319.

STOCKS.  ’A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers enough,’ ii. 251;
  ’Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for
beasts,’ iii. 287.

STONE.  ’Chinese is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe,’ iii. 339.

STONES.  ’I don’t care how often or how high he tosses me when only
friends are present, for then I fall upon soft ground; but I do not
like falling on stones, which is the case when enemies are present’
(Boswell), iii. 338;
  ‘The boys would throw stones at him,’ ii. 193.

STORY.  ’If you were to read Richardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,’ ii. 175.

STORY-TELLER.  ’I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as story-teller to a company,’ iv. 192, n. 2.

STRAIGHT.  ‘He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,’ iv. 225.

STRANGE.  ‘I’m never strange in a strange place’ (Journey to London), iv. 284.

STRATAGEM.  ‘This comes of stratagem,’ iii. 275.

STRAW.  ’The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose... deserved the applause of mankind,’ iii. 231.

STRETCH.  ’Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,’ iv. 8, n. 3.

STRIKE.  ‘A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,’ iii. 316.

STUFF.  ‘It is sad stuff; it is brutish,’ ii. 228;
  ’This now is such stuff as I used to talk to my mother, when I
first began to think myself a clever fellow, and she ought to have whipped me for it,’ ii. 14.