Chapter Samson Carrasco to Sandwich of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

again sold. Napoleon in his high and palmy days bought it, but it was sold in 1835 to Prince Paul Demidoff for £80,000. The prince sold it in 1830 to M. Levrat, administrator of the Mining Society, who was to pay for it in four instalments; but his failing to fulfil his engagement became, in 1832, the subject of a lawsuit, which was given in favour of the prince. We next hear of it in Bombay; and in 1867 it was transmitted to England by the firm of Forbes & Co. It now belongs to the Czar.

Sand (George). The nom de plume of Madame Dudevant, a French authoress, assumed out of attachment to Jules Sand or Sandeau, a young student, in conjunction with whom she published her first novel, Rose et Blanche, under the name of “Jules Sand.” (1804-1876.)

Sand A rope of sand. Something nominally effective and strong, but in reality worthless and untrustworthy.
   My sand of life is almost run. The allusion is to the hour-glass.

“Alas! dread lord, you see the case wherein I stand, and how little sand is left to run in my poor glass.”- Reynard the Fox, iv

Sand-blind Virtually blind, but not wholly so, what the French call ber-lue; our parblind. (Old English suffix sam, half; or Old High German sand, virtually.) It is only fit for a Launcelot Gobbo to derive it from sand, a sort of earth.

“This is my true-begotten father, who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not.”- Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.

Sand-man is about (The). (See Dustman .)

Sands Footprints on the sands of Time (Longfellow: Psalm of Life). This beautiful expression was probably suggested by a letter of the First Napoleon to his Minister of the Interior respecting the poor-laws:- “It is melancholy [he says] to see time passing away without being put to its full value. Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavour to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of our lives on the sands of Time.”
   To number sands. To undertake an endless or impossible task.

“Alas! poor duke, the task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
Shakespeare: Richard II., ii. 2.

Sandabar An Arabian writer, celebrated for his Parables. He lived about a century before the Christian era.

Sandal A man without sandals. A prodigal; so called by the ancient Jews, because the seller gave his sandals to the buyer as a ratification of his bargain. (Ruth iv. 7.)

Sandals of Theramenes (4 syl.), which would fit any foot. Theramenes, one of the Athenian oligarchy, was nicknamed “the trimmer” (cothurnus, a sandal or boot which might be worn on either foot), because no dependence could be placed on him. He blew hot and cold with the same breath. The proverb is applied to a trimmer.

Sandalphon One of the three angels who receive the prayers of the Israelites, and weave crowns for them. (Longfellow.)

Sandalwood A corruption of Santalwood, a plant of the genus Santalum and natural order Santalaceae.

Sandbanks Wynants, a Dutch artist, is famous for his homely pictures, where sandbanks form a most striking feature.

Sandemanians or Glassites. A religious party expelled from the Church of Scotland for maintaining that national churches, being “kingdoms of this world,” are unlawful. Called Glassites from John Glass,