Schiller required to sit over a table deeply impregnated with the smell of apples. He stimulated his brain with coffee and champagne.
Siddons (Mrs.), porter, not “stout.”
Smith (William), drank strong coffee.
Wedderburne (the first Lord Ashburton) used to place a blister on his chest when he had to make a great speech.--Dr. Paris, Pharmacologia (1819).
Wood (Mrs.), drank draught porter.
Stinkomalee. So Theodore Hook called the London University. The word was suggested by “Trincomalee” (in Ceylon), a name before the public at the time. Hook hated the “University,” because it admitted students of all denominations.
Only look at Stinkomalee and King’s College. Activity, union, craft, indomitable perseverance on the one side; indolence, indecision, internal distrust, and jealousies, calf-like simplicity, and cowardice intolerable on the other.--Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ (1822-36).
Stitch (Tom), a young tailor, a great favorite with the ladies.--The Merry History of Tom Stitch (seventeenth century).
Stockwell (Mr.), a City merchant, who promised to give his daughter, Nancy, in marriage, to the son of Sir Harry Harlowe of Dorsetshire.
Mrs. Stockwell, the merchant’s wife, who always veers round to the last speaker, and can be persuaded to anything for the time being.