Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 / A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Strasbourg Cathedral, designed by Erwin von Steinbach (1015-1439).

Strauchan (Old), the squire of Sir Kenneth.--Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time, Richard I.).

Straw. A little straw shows which way the wind blows.

You know or don’t know, that great Bacon saith,

Fling up a straw, ’twill show the way the wind blows.

Byron, Don Juan, xiv. 8 (1824).

Streets of London (The), a drama by Dion Boucicault (1862), adapted from the French play Les Pauvres des Paris.

Stre´mon, a soldier, famous for his singing.--Beaumont and Fletcher, The Mad Lover (1617).

Strephon, the shepherd in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, who makes love to the beautiful Uranĭa (1580). It is a stock name for a lover, Chloê being usually the corresponding lady.

Captain O’Flarty was one of my dying Strephons at Scarborough. I have a very grate regard for him, and must make him a little miserable with my happiness.--Garrick, The Irish Widow, i. 3 (1757).