Lovinski (Baron), the friend of Prince Lupauski, under whose charge the Princess Lodois´ka (4 syl.) is placed during a war between the Poles and the Tartars. Lovinski betrays his trust by keeping the princess a virtual prisoner, because she will not accept him as a lover. The Count Floreski makes his way into the castle, and the baron seeks to poison him, but at this crisis the Tartars invade the castle, the baron is slain, and Floreski marries the princess.—J.P. Kemble, Lodoiska (a melodrama).
Low-Heels and High-Heels, two factions in Lilliput. The High-heels were opposed to the emperor, who wore low heels, and employed Low-heels in his cabinet. Of course the Low-heels are the whigs, and low-church party, and the High-heels, the tories and high-church party. (See Big-endians).—Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (“Voyage to Lilliput,”[Lilliput,”] 1727).
Lowestoffe (Reginald), a young Templar.—Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).
Lowrie (Dan), thoroughly debased ruffian, who beats his noble daughter, plans again and again to murder or maim an honest man who has defended himself successfully when assailed, and is by mistake, set upon in the dark by the accomplices he has set in ambush for Fergus Derrick and wounded mortally. His last act is to strike blindly at Joan, his daughter.—Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass o’ Lowrie’s (1877).
Lowther (Jack), a smuggler.—Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).
Loyal Subject (The), Archas, general of the Muscovites, and the father of Colonel Theodore.—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Loyal Subject (1618).
Loyale Epée (La), “the honest soldier,” Marshal de MacMahon (1808, president of France from 1873 to 1879).
Loys de Dreux, a young Breton nobleman who joined the Druses, and was appointed their prefect.
Loys (2 syl.) the boy stood on the leading prow,
Conspicuous in his gay attire.