Death
Grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be filled.
1740
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ii., Line 815.

Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?—­a world without a sun.
1741
CAMPBELL:  Pl. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 21.

Even children follow’d with endearing wile, And pluck’d his gown, to share the good man’s smile. 1742 GOLDSMITH:  Des.  Village, Line 183.

=Smoke.=

I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl’d Above the green elms, that a cottage was near. 1743 MOORE:  Ballad Stanzas.

=Snail.=

The snail, whose tender horns being hit,
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain,
And there, all smother’d up in shade, doth sit,
Long after fearing to creep forth again.
1744
SHAKS.:  Venus and A., Line 1033.

=Snake.=

We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it;
She’ll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.
1745
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Snow.=

Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?
1746
SHAKS.:  Richard II., Act i., Sc. 3

A cheer for the snow—­the drifting snow;
Smoother and purer than Beauty’s brow;
The creature of thought scarce likes to tread
On the delicate carpet so richly spread.
1747
ELIZA COOK:  Snow.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight:  the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven.
1748
EMERSON:  The Snow-Storm.

=Snow-Drop.=

The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, Comes on, the herald of fair Flora’s train. 1749 CHURCHILL:  Gotham, Bk. i., Line 245.

=Snuff.=

When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. 1750 GOLDSMITH:  Retaliation, Line 145.

Lady, accept the gift a hero wore
   In spite of all this elegiac stuff;
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore
   Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff.
1751
BYRON:  Lines to Lady Holland.

=Society.=

Man in society is like a flower
Blown in its native bed; ’t is there alone
His faculties expanded in full bloom
Shine out; there only reach their proper use.
1752
COWPER:  Task, Bk. iv., Line 659.

Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
1753
WORDSWORTH:  Excursion, Bk. iii.

=Soldier.=

A soldier;
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.
1754
SHAKS.:  As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7.