Sea-green Incorruptible (The).

So Carlyle called Robespierre in his French Revolution.

“The song is a short one, and may perhaps serve to qualify our judgment of the ‘sea-green incorruptible.ʹ”—Notes and Queries, September 19th, 1891, p. 226.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Scuttle
Scuttle Out (To)
Scylla
Scylla
Scythian or Tartarian Lamb (The)
Scythian Defiance
Sea
Sea-blue Bird of March (The)
Sea Deities
Sea-girt Isle
Sea-green Incorruptible (The)
Sea Legs
Sea Serpent
Seaboard
Seal
Seamy Side (The)
Seasons (The)
Sebaraim
Sebastian (St.)
Sebastianistes
Second