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peas and stewed apples. Dr. Hancock prescribed cold water and stewed prunes. Dr. Rezio, of Barataria, allowed Sancho Panza to eat "a few wafers and a thin slice or two of quince."--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iii. 10 (1615). =Sansculottes= (3 _syl._), a low, riff-raff party in the great French Revolution, so shabby in dress that they were termed "the trouser-less." The _culotte_ is the breeches, called _braeck_ by the ancient Gauls, and _hauts-de-chausses_ in the reign of Charles IX. =Sansculottism=, red republicanism, or the revolutionary platform of the Sansculottes. The duke of Brunswick, at the head of a large army, invaded France to restore Louis XVI. to the throne, and save legitimacy from the sacrilegious hands of sansculottism.--G. H. Lewes, _Story of Goethe's Life_. _Literary Sansculottism_, literature of a low character, like that of the "Minerva Press," the "Leipsic Fair," "Hollywell Street," "Grub Street," and so on. =Sansfoy=, a "faithless Saracen," who attacked the Red Cross Knight, but was slain by him. "He cared for neither God nor man." Sansfoy personifies infidelity. Sansfoy, full large of limb and every joint He was, and car[:e]d not for God or man a point. Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. 2 (1590). =Sansjoy=, brother of Sansfoy. When he came to the court of Lucif[)e]ra, he noticed the shield of Sansfoy on the arm of the Red Cross Knight, and his rage was so great that he was with difficulty restrained from running on the champion there and then, but Lucifera bade him defer the combat to the following day. Next day, the fight began, but just as the Red Cross Knight was about to deal his adversary a death-blow, Sansjoy was enveloped in a thick cloud, and carried off in the chariot of Night to the infernal regions, where AEsculapius healed him of his wounds.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. 4, 5 (1590). (The reader will doubtless call to mind the combat of Menal[=a]os and Paris, and remember how the Trojan was invested in a cloud and carried off by Venus under similar circumstances.--Homer, _Iliad_, iii.) =Sansloy= ("_superstition_"), the brother of Sansfoy and Sansjoy. He carried off Una to the wilderness, but when the fauns and satyrs came to her rescue, he saved himself by flight. [Asterism] The meaning of this allegory is this; Una (_truth_), separated from St. George (_holiness_), is deceived by Hypocrisy; and immediately Truth
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