George Wishart, a Scotch reformer, was condemned to the stake by Cardinal Beaton. While the fire was blazing about him, the martyr exclaimed in a loud voice, “He who from yon high place beholdeth me with such pride, shall be brought low, even to the ground, before the trees which have supplied these faggots have shed their leaves.” It was March when these words were uttered, and the cardinal died in June.
Sun (The). The device of Edward III., was the sun bursting through a cloud. Hence Edward III. is called “our half-faced sun.”--Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iv. sc. 1 (1592).
Sun-Steeds. Brontê (“thunder”) and Amethēa (“no loiterer”), Æthon (“fiery red”) and Pyroïs (“fire”); Lampos (“shining like a lamp”), used only at noon; Philogēa (“effulgence”), used only in the westering course.
⁂ Phaĕton (“the shining one”) and Abraxas (the Greek numeral for 365) were the horses of Aurora, or the morning sun.
Sun´ith, one of the six Wise Men of the East led by the guiding star to Jesus. He had three holy daughters.--Klopstock, The Messiah, v. (1771).
Sunshine of St. Eulalie´ (3 syl.), Evangeline.
Sunshine of St. Eulălie was she called, for that was the sunshine
Which, as the farmers believed, would load their orchards with apples.
Longfellow, Evangeline, i. 1 (1849).
Super Grammat´icam, Sigismund, emperor of Germany (1366, 1411-1437).