Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 | Page 6

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place he had taken it from.
Adam, a bailiff, a jailer.
Not that Adam that kept the paradise, but that Adam that keeps the
prison.--Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3 (1593).
Adam, a faithful retainer in the family of sir Eowland de Boys. At the
age of fourscore, he voluntarily accompanied his young master Orlando
into exile, and offered to give him his little savings. He has given birth
to the phrase, "A Faithful Adam" [_or man-servant].--Shakespeare, As
You Like It_ (1598).
ADAM BELL, a northern outlaw, noted for his archery. The name, like
those of Clym of the Clough, William of Cloudesly, Robin Hood, and
Little John, is synonymous with a good archer.
ADAMASTOR, the Spirit of the Cape, a hideous phantom, of
unearthly pallor; "erect his hair uprose of withered red, his lips were
black, his teeth blue and disjointed, his beard haggard, his face scarred
by lightning, his eyes shot livid fire, his voice roared." The sailors
trembled at sight of him, and the fiend demanded how they dared to
trespass "where never hero braved his rage before?" He then told them
"that every year the shipwrecked should be made to deplore their
foolhardiness."--Camöens, The Lusiad, v. (1569).
ADAM'IDA, a planet on which reside the unborn spirits of saints,
martyrs, and believers. U'riel, the angel of the sun, was ordered at the
crucifixion to interpose this planet between the sun and the earth, so as
to produce a total eclipse.

Adamida, in obedience to the divine command, flew amidst
overwhelming storms, rushing clouds, falling mountains, and swelling
seas. Uriel stood on the pole of the star, but so lost in deep
contemplation on Golgotha, that he heard not the wild uproar. On
coming to the region of the sun, Adamida slackened her course, and
advancing before the sun, covered its face and intercepted all its
rays.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, viii. (1771).
ADAMS (John), one of the mutineers of the Bounty (1790), who
settled in Tahiti. In 1814 he was discovered as the patriarch of a colony,
brought up with a high sense of religion and strict regard to morals. In
1839 the colony was voluntarily placed under the protection of the
British Government.
Adams (Parson), the beau-ideal of a simple-minded, benevolent, but
eccentric country clergyman, of unswerving integrity, solid learning,
and genuine piety; bold as a lion in the cause of truth, but modest as a
girl in all personal matters; wholly ignorant of the world, being "in it
but not of of it."--Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742).
His learning, his simplicity, his evangelical purity of mind are so
admirably mingled with pedantry, absence of mind, and the habit of
athletic ... exercise ... that he may be safely termed one of the richest
productions of the muse of fiction. Like Don Quixote, parson Adams is
beaten a little too much and too often, but the cudgel lights upon his
shoulders ... without the slightest stain to his reputation.--Sir W. Scott.
AD'DISON OF THE NORTH, Henry Mackenzie, author of The Man of
Feeling (1745-1831).
ADELAIDE, daughter of the count of Narbonne, in love with Theodore.
She is killed by her father in mistake for another.--Robt. Jephson,
Count of Narbonne (1782).
ADELAIDE FISHER, daughter-in-law of Grandpa and Grandma
Fisher in Sallie Pratt McLean Greene's Cape Cod Folks. She has a
sweet voice and an edged temper, and it would seem from certain
cynical remarks of her own, and Grandma's "Thar, daughter, I wouldn't

mind!" has a history she does not care to reveal (1881).
ADELAIDE YATES, the wife of Steve Yates and mother of Little
Moses in Charles Egbert Craddock's In the "Stranger People's"
Country. Her husband has been seized and detained by the
"moonshiners" in the mountains, and the impression is that he has
wilfully deserted her. She cannot discredit it, but "She's goin' ter stay
thar in her cabin an' wait fur him," said Mrs. Pettengill. "Sorter seems
de-stressin', I do declar'. A purty, young, good, r'ligious 'oman a-settin'
herself ter spen' a empty life a-waitin' fur Steve Yates ter kum back!"
(1890.)
ADELINE (Lady), the wife of lord Henry Amun'deville (4 syl.), a
highly educated aristocratic lady, with all the virtues and weaknesses of
the upper ten. After the parliamentary sessions this noble pair filled
their house with guests, amongst which were the duchess of Fitz-Fulke,
the duke of D----, Aurora Raby, and don Juan, "the Russian envoy."
The tale not being finished, no key to these names is given. (For the
lady's character, see xiv. 54-56.)--Byron, Don Juan, xiii. to the end.
AD'EMAR or ADEMA'RO, archbishop of Poggio, an ecclesiastical
warrior in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered.--See _Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable_.
ADIC'IA, wife of the soldan, who incites him to distress the kingdom
of Mercilla. When Mercilla sends her ambassador, Samient, to
negotiate peace, Adicia, in