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Sabbath-day
Sabbath-day - in Christian tradition, Sunday, a seventh day of week. In Judaism Sabbath falls upon Saturday. In Bible it was considered to be the seventh day of Creation - the day, when the Creator put himself to rest...

Safe and sound
Safe and sound - to escape from any harm, to be out of any danger, especially after being threatened by one.

Sail
Sail - a special piece of fabric usually fastened in a certain way to a mast in order to use the force of the wind for a vessel the sail is established at to move on or for an arm of a windmill to rotate.

Saint-Ramy-de-Provence
Saint-Ramy-de-Provence - is a French city (or, more correctly, a commune) in Arles arrondisment of Bouches-du-Rhone department, Provence-Aples-Cote d'Azur region. Its area is about 90 square kilometers and its population amounts to over 10 thousand people. It is situated...

Scented pea
Scented pea, or sweet pea, or Lathyrus odoratus - a climbing plant of the legume family. Among its characteristic features: 1 to 2 metres high; feathery leaves; sweet-scented flowers mainly of purple colour.

Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (February, 10, 1795, Dordrecht - June, 15, 1858, Paris) - a French painter of Dutch origin most famous for his rigidly classical style of painting. He studied upon the tutorship of P.-N. Guerin...

Scheldt
The Scheldt - a long river (350 km) in Western Europe: it starts in north of France, then flows through the west of Belgium and southwest of the Netherlands. Its name runs up to the Germanic root (with cognates in Old English, Frisian, Low German, etc.) with the meaning "not deep, shallow". It is depicted on the painting by Belgian artist C.A.M. Cap.

Schelfhout
Andreas Schelfhout (February, 16, 1787, The Hague – April, 19, 1870, The Hague) - a Dutch painter and etcher, of Romantic movement, most famous for his landscapes. Among his works: "Winter Landscape with a mill" (1834), "A Winter Landscape With Skaters On A Frozen Waterway", "frozen canal near castle, sun".

Scheveningen
Scheveningen is one of the 8 districts and 9 subdistricts of The Hague, lying on the seashore. It was first mentioned on official documents in 1280 - then it was mainly a fishing place. Nowadays it is a seaside resort with all the necessary attributes: a beach, a pier, a lighthouse and even a section for naturists, or - more common denotation - nudists.

Schotel
Schotel - Dutch artist family: father, Johannes Christian (November, 11, 1787 - December, 21, 1838) and his son Petrus Johannes (November, 11, 1808 - July, 23, 1865). Johannes Christian ...

Schreyer
Adolf Schreyer (July, 9, 1828 – July, 29, 1899) - a German painter. He studied painting in his native Frankfurt-am-Main, Stuttgart and Munich. Schreyer is best known as a battle-scene painter and is famed for his masterful depictions of horses and peasant life in Southern Europe...

Scrapbook
Scrapbook - a certain kind of album where one can collect and glue clippings (from newspapers, books or reproductions) or any other items in.

Sedge
Sedge - a plant of the genus Carex; it can look like a grass or like a rush and among its distinctive features are the following: hard stems, narrow leaves and spiked indistinguishable flowers. It grows in wet places, especially often it can be found in marshes.

Seurat George-Pierre
George-Pierre Seurat (December, 2, 1859, Paris - March, 29, 1891, Paris) - a famous French painter and drawer, founder of Neo-impressionism and main practitioner of Pointillism technique.
He studied art in Ecole des Beuax-Arts under the tutorship of...

Shilling
Shilling is a unit of money circulating in countries of the British Commonwealth (former and current): the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Fiji, etc. Before the decimalization in 1971 shilling equalled to 12 pence...

Shrub
Shrub - a small plant of wood with numerous stems.

Silk
Silk - a soft thread produced by a silkworm, widely used in cloth-making.

Sink
Sink - to descend gradually, to get downward, to get under the surface of something.

Sloping
Sloping - an adjective used to describe something that is positioned under an oblique angle, something that is askew.

Sommerwill
Sommerwill - one of the employees with the the Hague office of Goupil&Cie.

Southampton Street
Southampton Street - London street located in the City of Westminster borough, adjacent to the Strand.

Spades
Spades - one of the four card suits alongside with clubs, diamonds and hearts. Its sign believed to resemble a blade of the spade. According to one not very popular version the name of the suit ...

Steeple
Steeple - a tower on the church usually with a spire atop of it.

Stevens
Alfred-Emile Stevens (May, 11, 1823 - August, 24, 1906) was a Belgian painter. He lived and exhibited mainly in Paris and was famous for exquisite pictures depicting elegant ladies in sophisticated and romantic surroundings ...

Stockroom
Stockroom - a special room, where the store of goods, merchandise or any objects is kept; storeroom.

Stocktaking
Stocktaking - a revision of materials or goods of a company; inventory.

Strand
Strand - famous London street located in the City of Westminster borough. Name of the street derives from the Old English and means "shore". This street hosts numerous palaces, theatres and art museums.

Stubble plain
Stubble plain - a field where crop has been already cut at and that is full of stubbles - small pieces of grain lying on the ground.

Suburb
Suburb - a residential area situated immediately near the borders of town or city; a residential district situated on the perphery of town or city.

Swan
Swan - large bird with big neck and beak, belonging to the Anatidae family together with geese and ducks.

Swelter
Swelter - to be uncomfortable because of the extremely hot weather; to feel unpleasantly hot.

Sycamore
Sycamore, or Sycamore Maple - is a kind of Maple common for central Europe. It is also known as acer pseudoplatanus and as a plane tree in Scotland. It is a very tall tree (20 to 35 metres high) with broad crown, long dark-green leaves with indented edges.

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