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- Rosamond-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1892 Robert Grant: The Reflections of a Married Man. Scribner,1892. page 101:: \"Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty,\" said I, with non-committal subserviency,".
- Rosamond-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1892 Robert Grant: The Reflections of a Married Man. Scribner,1892. page 101:: \"I am quite aware,\" she added, \"that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred?\"".
- Roserei-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 2:16:: Wéi den Herodes an Uecht geholl huet, datt d'Stärendeiter hien hanner d'Liicht gefouert haten, war hien ausser sech vu Roserei. Hien huet seng Leit geschéckt, fir zu Bethlehem an an der ganzer Ëmgéigend all d'Kanner bis zwee Joer ëmzebréngen - wat genee där Zäitspan entsprach huet, déi hie vun de Stärendeiter genannt kritt hat.".
- Ross-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1876: ... Dort seh’ ich Grane, mein selig Roß: wie weidet er munter der mit mir schlief! Mit mir hat ihn Siegfried erweckt. — Richard Wagner, Siegfried, Dritter Aufzug, Dritte Szene.".
- Rowan-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation "2010 Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-340-98062-0, pages 321-322:: 'The Yardleys' inventiveness with names is one of the many reasons I'm in trouble,' said Duffy, returning with a mug of tea each for her and Charlie. 'I referred to their younger son Rowan as \"she\" in a report I wrote. I've only known of two other Rowans and both were female, so I assumed Helen's Rowan was too.".
- Roxane-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):: Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,".
- Roxane-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):: I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - \"Roxane!\"".
- Roxane-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):: Your name is like a golden bell".
- Roxane-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):: \"Roxane!\"...along my veins, \"Roxane!\"".
- Roy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds. Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:: - - - The real pity is that the only name William Burton remembers is Roy...it was a popular name in the fifties and sixties so there were probably quite a few of them.\"".
- Roy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds. Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:: \"At least one of those was a comic-book character,\" said Andrew.".
- Roy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds. Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:: \"Not that popular,\" said George. \"Surely it's Roy Trent?\"".
- Roy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds. Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:: \"Roy Rogers...Roy Orbison... Roy of the Rovers...Roy Castle...\"".
- Roy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds. Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:: \"So? Bill Clinton and David Beckham named their children after places. All I'm saying is we can't assume Roy Trent from Roy.\"".
- Royal-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "1974 Patrick White, Five-Twenty, Shorter Novels and Stories, Cape 1974, ISBN 0224009923, page 173: Royal - he had been his mother's little king. Most of his mates called him \"Roy\". Perhaps only her and Mrs Natwick had stuck to the christened name, they felt it suited.".
- Ruby-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1992 Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:: And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.".
- Rufus-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": Romans 16:13:: Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.".
- Rupert-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2010 Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 99:: A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.".
- Ruritanian-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "2007, Walter Lippman, Public Opinion, chapter X, page 79: These claims were called the Greater Ruritania by the cultivated classes who regarded Kipling, Treitschke, and Maurice Barres as one hundred percent Ruritanian. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad. So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer.".
- Ruritanian-English-Adjective-2en hasQuotation "1968, Robert Ellsworth Elder, The Information Machine, p 339: In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts.".
- Rus-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2009, , A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 504:: In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.".
- Ruth-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation ": And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.".
- Ruth-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation "1982 Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Fawcett Columbine , 1996, ISBN 0449911594, page 134: He pictured the woman as dark and Biblical, because of her name: Ruth. Shadowed eyes and creamy skin. Torrents of loose black hair.".
- S.U.V.-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2004 April 11, Tina Rosenberg, \"What the World Needs Now Is DDT\", in The New York Times Magazine, page 43:: Mozambique is now doing house spraying successfully and cheaply without a national army of sprayers and a fleet of S.U.V.'s.".
- S@NearBaseForearm-PalmUp_Frontandback_S@BaseForearm-PalmUp-AmericanSignLanguage-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2009, Michael DiMartino, Addicted - Sign Language - CaptainL0ver (“Captainl0ver interpreters Kelly Clarkson's song Addicted”), 0:30:: YOU SUPPOSE LIKE DRUG. — “It's (metaphorically) like you're a drug.”".
- SNAFU-English-Noun-2en hasQuotation "2007, Susan Glairon, Paperwork SNAFU, The Daily Times-Call, LongmontFYI: Because of a paperwork snafu, he also hasn’t been able to get his Army discharge papers and is still listed as an active-duty soldier…".
- SRO-English hasQuotation "Zero to Hero (song), in Disney movie Hercules".
- S\u00E3o_Paulo-French-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1955, , Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., , ISBN 978-2-259-00359-1, chap. X,I p. 108: Et pourtant São Paulo ne m'a jamais paru laide : c'était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l'exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]".
- S\u00E8k\u00E8r\u00E8-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2008: Progress Report on Growth Strategy for Poverty Reduction, chapter 3: “Infrastructure Development”, priority area 2: “Energy Infrastructure”, , § 87: To be precise, the relevant actions in this area are as follows: […] the completion of preelectrification installations of Sori (commune of Gogounou), Sèkèrè (commune of Sinendé)[,] Kilibo (commune of Ouessè), Goro (commune of Tchaourou), Baoudjo (commune of Ifangny) and Adohoun (commune of Athiémé) [….]".
- S\u00FCnde-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1932, Erich Mühsam, [[s:de:Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat|Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat]], in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 268:: Unrecht ist die Verfehlung gegen die menschliche Gemeinschaft, Sünde die Verfehlung gegen die göttliche, mithin gegen die priesterliche Autorität.".
- Sabina-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press. ISBN 1859182585, page 8:: Nor have our female names fared one bit better; we have discarded them even more ruthlessly than those of our men. Surely Sadhbh ( Sive ) is a prettier name then Sabina or Sibby; - - -".
- Sadie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1888 William Dean Howells, A Sea-change, Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34: From the famous house whose trade is".
- Sadie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1888 William Dean Howells, A Sea-change, Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34: Minnies, Mamies, Susies, Sadies -".
- Sadie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1888 William Dean Howells, A Sea-change, Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34: Of all modern retail story.".
- Sadie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1888 William Dean Howells, A Sea-change, Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34: The distinction and the glory".
- Sadie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1888 William Dean Howells, A Sea-change, Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34: We are some of the sales-ladies -".
- Sager-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Deutsche TV-Moderatorin nach Nazi-Sager entlassen.421966: German TV moderator released after Nazi remark.".
- Salomonen-German-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2012 May 7, Die Welt , page 20:: Die Salomonen sind eine Inselgruppe in der Südsee.".
- Samaritan-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2009, , A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 62:: Many of these despised people built a rival temple on Mount Gerizim in the central Palestinian territory known as Samaria, and hence they were called Samaritans (a word of contempt to Jews); in very reduced numbers, they still live round their sacred mountain now.".
- Samean-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation ": with which nature hath bedecked all females, or hath at least instructed them how to put it on; lest, through the indelicacy of males, the Samean mysteries should be pryed into by unhallowed eyes:".
- Samett-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 11:8:: Oder wat wollt dir gesinn, wéi dir erausgaang sidd? E Mënsch, deen a Seid a Samett gekleet ass? Kuckt, Leit, déi a Seid a Samett gekleet sinn, déi sinn an de Kinnekshaiser.".
- Samuel-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation ":: Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.".
- Sandal-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 3:11:: Ech deefen iech mat Waasser, fir datt dir ëmdenkt. Mä et gëtt een, deen no mir kënnt, an dee méi staark ass wéi ech; ech sinn et net wäert, him seng Sandalen ze droen. Hien deeft iech mat hellegem Geescht a mat Feier.".
- Sanskritism-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1991, Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, A History of Indian Literature, page 251, quoting Nawab Abdul Latif, the founder of the Mohammedan Literary Society, 1882:: My opinion as regards Bengali is that Primary Instruction for the lower classes of people, who are for the most part ethnically allied to the Hindoos should be in the Bengali language, purified, however, from the super-structure of Sanskritism of learned Hindoos and supplemented by the numerous words of Arabic and Persian origin...".
- Sapta_Sindhu-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2006, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, World and Its Peoples, p. 316:: The settlers in Sapta Sindhu composed the Rig Veda, the first of the Vedas, the ancient sacred writings of the Hindu religion.".
- Saqqaq-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": Brian Handwerk, “: The Saqqaq have long presented a puzzle to scientists, according to study co-author Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary biologist at the in Denmark.".
- Sara-Ewe-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "Ŋɔŋlɔ Kɔkɔe La le Eʋegbe me, Hebritɔwo 11:11: Le xɔse me Sara ke hɑ̃ kpɔ ŋusẽ bena, wòfɔ fu, eye wòdzi vi le eƒe nyagɑ̃kuku me; elabena ebu amesi na ŋugbedodoe la nuteƒewɔlae.".
- Sarah-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 17:15: And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.".
- Sarai-Ewe-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "Ŋɔŋlɔ Kɔkɔe La le Eʋegbe me, Mose I 12:5: Eye Abram kplɔ srɔ̃a Sarai kple tɔgɑ̃yɔvia Lot, eye wotsɔ woƒe kesinɔnuwo katɑ̃ kple amesiwo katɑ̃ wokpɔ le Xaran la, eye woʋu, be woayi Kanaan-nyigba dzi, eye wova Kanaan-nyigba la dzi.".
- Sarai-Spanish-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 12:5: Y tomó Abram á Sarai su mujer, y á Lot hijo de su hermano, y toda su hacienda que habían ganado, y las almas que habían adquirido en Harán, y salieron parair á tierra de Canaán; y á tierra de Canaán llegaron.".
- Saturnalia-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1913 — Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, ch I: Saturn was an ancient Italian deity. It was attempted to identify him with the Grecian god Cronos, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, where he reigned during what was called the Golden Age. In memory of his beneficent dominion, the feast of Saturnalia was held every year in the winter season.".
- Savitr-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003, Malati J. Shendge, The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rigveda, Abhinav Publications, ISBN 8170170648, p. 319:: However, Savitṛ represents, as has been rightly pointed out by Sāyaṇa, the natural phenomenon of the setting and rising sun, whereas Sūrya represents the sun after it is risen and before it approaches the setting frame.".
- Sazerac-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 415:: a night that began at the establishment of Monsieur Peychaud, where the Sazeracs, though said to've been invented there, were not a patch, it seemed to Reef, on those available at Bob Stockton's bar in Denver, though those Absinthe Frappés were another matter.".
- Scarlet-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1979 Joseph Hansen, Skinflick, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ISBN 0030489310, page 96:: It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.".
- Schaltsekunde-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2012 June 20, Die Welt , page 22:: Die Nacht zum 1. Juli 2012 wird eine Sekunde länger dauern. Zum ersten Mal seit der Neujahrsnacht vom 1. Januar 2009 wird in die „koordinierte Weltzeit“ (UTC) wieder eine sogenannte Schaltsekunde eingefügt.".
- Schalttag-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, [[s:de:Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter|Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter]], in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 106:: Vierzig mal 365 Tage und dazu noch die Schalttage waren verstrichen, seit Dorothee unter den Apfelbäumen Burkahnens über ihr Leben entschieden hatte.".
- Schaub\u00FChne-German-Noun-2en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 34/2010, page 131:: Der Autosalon in Moskau zählt zu den internationalen Schaubühnen für Fahrzeuginteressierte mit unbegrenzten Ansprüchen.".
- Schauspiel-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Faust, line 454 (on Faust): Welch Schauspiel! aber ach! ein Schauspiel nur!".
- Scheier-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 3:12:: Elo schonn huet hien d'Schëpp an der Hand, mat där mécht hien säin Denn propper a sammelt säi Weess an der Scheier. D'Kuef awer verbrennt hien an engem Feier, dat ni ausgeet.".
- Schleswiger-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1979 (reprint), Elise Amalie Tvede Wærenskjold, The Lady with the Pen, page 79:: There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.".
- Schleswiger-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1847, C. A. v Kamptz, Staatsrechtliche Bemerkungen über den K. Dänischen offenen Brief vom 8. Juli 1846, page 141:: Allerdings hatten die Schleswiger schon bei Herzogs Adolphs Leben zu dessen Nachfolger den damaligen Grafen Christian gewünscht und ihm die eventuelle Huldigung geleistet, [...]".
- Schnellzug-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 46/2010, page 103:: In nur 28 Minuten soll ein neuer Schnellzug künftig Tel Aviv und Jerusalem verbinden.".
- Schr\u00EBftgel\u00E9ierten-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 5:20:: Well ech soen iech: Wann är Gerechtegkeet net méi wäit geet wéi de Schrëftgeléierten an de Pharisäer hir, da kommt dir net an d'Himmelräich eran.".
- Schr\u00F6dingers_cat-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation ": A cat like yours is a Schrödinger's cat, sealed up in an office where someone's disintegration provides a 50-50 chance of its death.".
- Schr\u00F6dingers_cat-English-Noun-2en hasQuotation "2004, Colin Bruce, Schrödinger's Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum, page 83: To see how, let us consider a nested system of Schrödinger's cats.".
- Schwachkopf-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1823, Jakob Salat, Denkwürdigkeiten betreffend den Gang der Wissenschaft und Aufklärung im südlichen Deutschland, Landshut, page 474:: \"Aber soll denn jeder Schwachkopf, wenn er nur Geld hat, studiren dürfen?\" Nein! keinem Schwächlinge dieser Art soll die Schranke geöffnet werden.".
- Schwachmatikus-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1924, Rudolf Steiner, “Über das Verhältnis der Nahrungsmittel zum Menschen”, in: Die Schöpfung der Welt und des Menschen, GA 354: Wenn [der Mensch] aber nicht Zucker bilden könnte, würde er ewig ein Schwachmatikus sein.".
- Schwarm-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1921, Elisabeth von Heyking, [[s:de:Die Trommel|Die Trommel]], in Weberin Schuld, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 8:: Dazu zirpten unzählige Zikaden, schillernde Libellen schossen surrend durch die Luft, […], Mücken summten in Schwärmen, […]".
- Scitia-Latin-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1282-1285 — Simon de Keza, Gesta Hungarorum; section 7: Igitur in aetate sexta saeculi multiplicati Huni in Scitia habitando ut arena, anno Domini septingentesimo in unum congregati, capitaneos inter se...".
- Sclavus-Latin-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1489 — ARec 1236 (published in the Słownik Staropolskich Nazw Osobowych, under the name Sclawus): In causa Nicolai Sclavi, seruitoris burse Vngarorum".
- Scrabble-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2000, Eric T. Olson and Tammy Perry Olson, Real-Life Math: Statistics, Walch Publishing, ISBN 0825138639, page 56: Start by asking students if they ever watch Wheel of Fortune, or play games like Hangman or Scrabble.® Ask whether they have ever noticed any patterns in the frequency with which letters appear.".
- Scrabbler-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation (page 159): More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...".
- Sean-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1996 Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes. Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0 00 649840 X page 203:: They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Mam says she likes the names Kevin and Sean but Bridey says, Ah no, there's too many of them in Limerick. Jesus, Angela, if you stuck your head out of the door and called, Kevin or Sean, come in for your tea, you'd have half o' Limerick running to your door.".
- Sega-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2007, S Westwood, Suicide Junkie: I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.".
- Sehnsucht-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 324 (footnote):: An excellent old German lady, who had done some travelling in her day, used to describe to me her Sehnsucht that she might yet visit ‘Philadelphia’, whose wondrous name had always haunted her imagination.".
- Selma-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 253:: Happy are thy people, O Fingal! king of resounding Selma!".
- Sem-Spanish-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 9:18: Y los hijos de Noé que salieron del arca fueron Sem, Châm y Japhet: y Châm es el padre de Canaán.".
- Senatical-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1729: The Craftſman Extraordinary (volume number unknown), “The Riſe, Reign, and Ruin of the Kingly Family of the Stuarts”,: It is to be obſerved, that what overthrows Monarchy, the ſame overthrows a Senatical Government.".
- Seraphina-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1903 Joseph Conrad, Romance, Babylon Dreams, ISBN 1603033572, page 196:: I breathed out the name Seraphina into the moonlight in an increasing transport. \"Seraphina! Seraphina! Seraphina! \" The repeated beauty of the sound intoxicated me.".
- Serena-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": VI:iii:23:: Of which whilest they discoursed both together,".
- Serena-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": VI:iii:23:: The faire Serena ( so his lady hight )".
- Serene-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": VI: vi: 18:: The Prince according to the former token,".
- Serene-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": VI: vi: 18:: Which faire Serene to him delivered had,".
- Sergius-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.".
- Seri-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1829, R. W. H. Hardy, Travels in the Interior of Mexico: It is believed that the Céres Indians have discovered a method of poisoning their arrows.".
- Set-Icelandic-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English): Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.".
- Shaftesburian-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1787, Sir John Hawkins, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.,: Johnſon bore [the 3ʳᵈ Lord Shaftesbury] no good will, neither did he ſeem at all to reliſh the cant of the Shafteſburian ſchool.".
- Shakespeare-English-Noun-2en hasQuotation "1997 Vivien Allen, \"Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer\": Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put on a play was a barn, a crude stage, ...".
- Shangri-la-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1943, James Hilton, Lost Horizon , Macmillan Company of Canada, first occurance, page 54:: He spoke a kind of Chinese that I don't understand very well, but I think he said something about a lamasery near here, along the valley, I gathered, where we could get food and shelter. Shangri-La, he called it.".
- Shannon-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation "1896 Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, C.M.Busch, state printer, 1896, page 283: Captain Samuel Shannon is frequently mentioned in the public records, and he had something more than a local reputation. He must have been very popular, as the name \"Shannon\" as a Christian name is so common throughout the valley as to be noticeable.".
- Shannon-English-ProperNoun-4en hasQuotation "2005 Andrew M. Greeley, Mary G. Durkin, The Book of Love, Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 0312878389, pages 193-194: Everything in my life is okay except I have this terrible problem with my sister Shannon. I'm spelling her name the way most people would. She spells it Sionna ever since the priest told us that's the real Irish way to spell it. It's the name of a river and a goddess. Shanny doesn't think she's a river. She's really Shannon Marie.".
- Sharlene-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1968 Myron S. Kaufmann, Thy Daughter's Nakedness, Lippincott 1968, page 39: The name Sharlene sounds like a chemical, she thought. Aunt Gwen has no taste.".
- Sharon-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.".
- Shawn-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1996 Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141: Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.".
- Shawn-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169: Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.".
- Shawna-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1979 Sandy Johnson, The CUPPI, Delacorte Press/E.Friede, ISBN 0440011906, page 31: \"That's an interesting name - Shawna. Almost sounds Indian,\" he said, knowing she was dying to tell him about her.".
- Sheba-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ":: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.".
- Sheba-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation ":: And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.".
- Sheba-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation "1996 Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, ISBN 0-7472-1538-3, page 172:: 'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.'".
- Sheena-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1995 John le Carré, Our Game, Knopf 1995, ISBN 0679441891, page 30:: I imagined her tall, horsy and thirty-something with a name like Sheena. There had been a time when I had regarded Sheenas as the backbone of England.".