The Prisoner of Zenda (58 page)

snuff
NOUN
snuff is tobacco in powder form which is taken by sniffing
as he thrust his thumb and
forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
(
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens)

soliloquized
VERB
to soliloquize is when an actor in a play speaks to himself or herself rather than to another actor
“A new servitude! There is something in that,” I
soliloquized (mentally, be it
understood; I did not talk aloud)
(
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë)

sough
NOUN
a sough is a drain or a ditch
as you may have noticed the sough that runs from the marshes
(
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë)

spirits
NOUN
a spirit is the nonphysical part of a person which is believed to remain alive after their death
that I might raise up spirits when I please
(
Doctor Faustus 1.5
by Christopher Marlowe)

spleen
NOUN
here spleen means a type of sadness or depression which was thought to only affect the wealthy
yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)
NOUN
irritability and low spirits
Adieu to disappointment and spleen
(
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen)

spondulicks
NOUN
spondulicks is a slang word which means money
not for all his spondulicks and as much more on top of it
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

stalled of
VERB
to be stalled of something is to be bored with it
I'm stalled of doing naught
(
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë)

stanchion
NOUN
a stanchion is a pole or bar that stands upright and is used as a buidling support
and slid down a stanchion
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

stang
NOUN
stang is another word for pole which was an old measurement
These fields were
intermingled with woods of half a stang
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)