Dame Ursula had acquaintances ... among the quality, and maintained her intercourse ... partly by driving a trade in perfumes, essences, pomades, head-gears from France, not to mention drugs of various descriptions, chiefly for the use of ladies, and partly by other services, more or less connected with the esoteric branches of her profession.--Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_, viii. (time, James I.). =Suds= (_Mrs._), any washerwoman or laundress. =Suicides from Books.= CLEOM´BROTOS, the Academic philosopher, killed himself after reading Plato’s _Phædon_, that he might enjoy the happiness of the future life, so enchantingly described. FRÄULEIN VON LASSBERG drowned herself in spleen, after reading Goethe’s _Sorrows of Werther_. =Sulin-Sifad´da=, one of the two steeds of Cuthullin, general of the Irish tribes. The name of the other was Dusronnal. Before the right side of the car is seen the snorting horse; the high-maned, broad-breasted, proud, wide-leaping, strong steed of the hill. Loud and resounding is his hoof; the spreading of his mane above is like a stream of smoke on a ridge of rocks. Bright are the sides of his steed. His name is Sulin-Sifadda.--Ossian, _Fingal_, i. Dusronnal snorted over the bodies of heroes. Sifadda bathed his hoof in blood.--Ditto. =Sulky= (_Mr._), executor of Mr. Warren, and partner in Dornton’s bank. With a sulky, grumpy exterior, he has a kind heart, and is strictly honest. When Dornton is brought to the brink of ruin by his son’s extravagance, Sulky comes nobly forward to the rescue. (See SILKY.)--T. Holcroft, _The Road to Ruin_ (1792). And oh! for monopoly. What a blest day, When the lank and the silk shall, in fond combination (Like Sulky and Silky, that pair in the play). Cry out with one voice for “high rents” and “starvation!” T. Moore, _Ode to the Goddess Ceres_ (1806). =Sullen= (_Squire_), son of Lady Bountiful by her first husband. He married the sister of Sir Charles Freeman, but after fourteen months, their tempers and dispositions were found so incompatible that they mutually agreed to a divorce. He says little, thinks less, and does nothing at all. Faith! but he’s a man of great estate, and values nobody.--Act i. 1. Parson Trulliber, Sir Wilful Witwould, Sir Francis Wronghead, Squire Western, Squire Sullen--such were the people who composed the main strength of the tory party for sixty years after the Revolution.--Lord Macaulay. ⁂ “Parson Trulliber,” in _Joseph Andrews_ (by Fielding); “Sir Wilful Witwould,” in _The Way of the World_ (Congreve); “Sir Francis Wronghead,” in _The Provoked Husband_ (by Cibber); “Squire Western,” in _Tom Jones_ (by Fielding).