Chapter Seremenes to Seven Champions of Christendom of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Opening a handkerchief, in which he had a sample of sesamê, he inquired of me how much a large measure of the grain was worth…I told him that, according to the present price, a large measure was worth one hundred drachms of silver…and he left the sesamê with me.—Arabian Nights (“The Christian Merchant’s Story”)..

Sesostris (The Modern), Napoleon Bonaparte (1769, 1804–1815, 1821).

But where is he, the modern, mightier far,
Who, born no king, made monarchs draw his car;
The new Sesostris whose unharnessed kings,
Freed from the bit, believe themselves with wings,
And spurn the dust o’er which they crawled of late,
Chained to the chariot of the chieftain’s state?
   —Byron: Age of Bronze (1821).

(“Sesostris,” in Fénelon’s Télémaque, is meant for Louis XIV.)

Setebos, a deity of the Patagonians.

His art is of such power,
It would control my dam’s god Setebos.
   —Shakespeare: The Tempest(1609).

The giants, when they found themselves fettered, roared like bulls, and cried upon Setebos to help them.—Eden: History of Travayle.

Seth, a servant of the Jew at Ashby. Reuben is his fellow-servant.—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

Settle (Elkana), the poet, introduced by sir W. Scott in Peveril of the Peak (time), Charles II.).

(Rochester tried to raise him in public estimation, so as to be a rival to Dryden.)

Seven Bishops (The). (See BISHOPS, p. 122.)

Seven in the Bible is a mystic number, probably quite indefinite. We say “six or seven,” meaning an indefinite number between “three or four” and “a dozen or more.”

In Brussels it plays a very conspicuous part.

There are seven noble families springing from seven ancient castles, and these seven supply the stock from which the seven senators are selected. The seven senators from upper council of the city. There are also seven great squares and seven gates. [This refers to the sixteenth century.]— Motley: The Dutch Republic, pt.i. I(1856).

Seven Bodies in Alchemy. The Sun is gold, the Moon silver, Mars iron, Mercury quicksilver, Saturn lead, Jupiter tin, and Venus copper.

The bodies seven, eek, lo hem heer anoon:
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe;
Mars yren, Mercurie quyksilver we clepe;
Saturnus leed, and Jubitur is tyn,
And Venus ciper, by my fader kyn.
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (prologue to “The

Chanounes Yemanes Tale,”1388).

Seven Champions of Christendom The: St. George for England; St. Andrew for Scotland; St. Patrick for Ireland; St. David for Wales; St. Denys for France; St. James for Spain; and St. Anthony for Italy.

(Richard Johnson wrote The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom, 1617).