=Strap= (_Hugh_), a simple, generous, and disinterested adherent of Roderick Random. His generosity and fidelity, however, meet with but a base return from the heartless libertine.--T. Smollett, _Roderick Random_ (1748). We believe there are few readers who are not disgusted with the miserable reward assigned to Strap in the closing chapter of the novel. Five hundred pounds (scarce the value of the goods he had presented to his master) and the hand of a reclaimed street-walker, even when added to a Highland farm, seem but a poor recompense for his faithful and disinterested attachment.--Sir W. Scott. =Strasbourg Cathedral=, designed by Erwin von Steinbach (1015-1439). =Strauchan= (_Old_), the squire of Sir Kenneth.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Straw.= _A little straw shows which way the wind blows._ You know or don’t know, that great Bacon saith, Fling up a straw, ’twill show the way the wind blows. Byron, _Don Juan_, xiv. 8 (1824). =Streets of London= (_The_), a drama by Dion Boucicault (1862), adapted from the French play _Les Pauvres des Paris_. =Stre´mon=, a soldier, famous for his singing.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Mad Lover_ (1617). =Strephon=, the shepherd in Sir Philip Sidney’s _Arcadia_, who makes love to the beautiful Uranĭa (1580). It is a stock name for a lover, Chloê being usually the corresponding lady. Captain O’Flarty was one of my dying Strephons at Scarborough. I have a very grate regard for him, and must make him a little miserable with my happiness.--Garrick, _The Irish Widow_, i. 3 (1757). The servant of your Strephon ... is my lord and master.--Garrick, _Miss in Her Teens_ (1753). =Stretton= (_Hesba_), the pseudonym of Miss Smith, daughter of a bookseller and printer in Wellington, Salop, authoress of several well-known religious novels. =Strickalthrow= (_Merciful_), in Cromwell’s troop.--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). =Strictland= (_Mr._), the “suspicious husband,” who suspects Clarinda, a young lady visitor, of corrupting his wife; suspects Jacintha, his ward, of lightness; and suspects his wife of infidelity; but all his suspicions being proved groundless, he promises reform. _Mrs. Strictland_, wife of Mr. Strictland, a model of discretion and good nature. She not only gives no cause of jealousy to her husband, but never even resents his suspicions or returns ill temper in the same coin.--Dr. Hoadly, _The Suspicious Husband_ (1747). =Strike, Dakyns! the Devil’s in the Hempe=, the motto of the Dakynses. The reference is to an enemy of the king, who had taken refuge in a pile of hemp. Dakyns, having nosed the traitor, was exhorted to strike him with his battle-axe, and kill him, which he did. Hence the crest of the family--a dexter arm ... holding a battle-axe.