Saunderson (Saunders), butler, etc., to Mr. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, baron of Bradwardine and Tully Veolan.—Sir W. Scott, Waverley (time, George II.).
Saurid, king of Egypt, say the Coptites (2 syl.) built the pyramids 300 years before the Flood, and according to the same authority, the following inscription was engraved upon one of them:—
I, King Saurid, built the pyramids ... and finished them in six years. He that comes after me ... let him destroy them in 600 if he can ... I also covered them ... with satin, and let him cover them with matting.—Greaves, Pyramidographia, (seventeenth century).
Savage (Captain), a naval commander.—Captain Marryat, Peter Simple (1833).
Sav´il, steward to the elder Loveless.—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady (1616).
Sav´ille (2 syl.), the friend of Doricourt. He saves Lady Frances Touchwood from Courtall, and frustrates his infamous designs on the lady’s honor.—Mrs. Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem (1780).
Saville (Lord), a young nobleman with Chiffinch (emissary of Charles II.).—Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time Charles II.).
Saviour of Rome. C. Marĭus was so called after the overthrow of the Cimbri, July 30, B.C. 101.
Saviour of the Nations. So the duke of Wellington was termed after the overthrow of Bonaparte (1769-1852).
Oh, Wellington ... called “Saviour of the Nations!”
Byron, Don Juan, ix. 5 (1824).