Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. (1613).
Struldbrugs, the inhabitants of Luggnagg, who never die.
He had reached that period of life ... which ... entitles a man to admission into the ancient order of Struldbrugs.--Swift, Gulliver’s Travels “Laputa,” (1726)[(1726)].
Strutt (Lord), the king of Spain; originally Charles II. (who died without issue), but also applied to his successor, Philippe, duc d’Anson, called “Philip, Lord Strutt.”
I need not tell you of the great quarrels that happened in our neighborhood since the death of the late Lord Strutt; how the parson [Cardinal Portocarero] ... got him to settle his estate upon his cousin, Philip Baboon [Bourbon], to the great disappointment of his cousin, Squire South [Charles of Austria].--Dr. Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, i (1712).
Stryver (Bully), of the King’s Bench Bar, counsel for the defence in Darnay’s trial.
He was stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy; had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way on in life.--C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ii. 24 (1859).
Stuart Ill-Fated (The House of), as that of Œdĭpos.
James I. of Scotland, poet, murdered by conspirators at Perth, in the forty-fourth year of his age (1393, 1424-1437).
James II., his son, killed at the siege of Roxburgh, aged 30 (1430, 1437-1460).