At the last annual meeting of the National Academy of Design , the rank of Academician was conferred on T. Hicks, G.A. Baker, H.K. Brown, J.A. Cropsey, T. Addison Richards, R. Gignoux, P.P. Duggan, Alfred Jones, R.M. Pratt, J.W. Casilear, James Smillie and George W. Flagg.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Fruit will seem a graceful afterthought; pears all golden, save where the sun, a passionate lover, with his kisses set them to blushing a rosy red; grapes, purple and white and voluptuous; figs, overflowing with the exotic sweetness of their far southern home; peaches, tender and juicy and desirable.
— from The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Born in 1592 at Romford, of a gentle though not very distinguished family, which enters into that curious literary genealogy of Swift, Dryden, and Herrick, he was educated at Cambridge, became cup-bearer to the ill-fated and romantically renowned "Goody Palsgrave," held [Pg 377] the post which Middleton and Jonson had held, of chronologer to the city of London, followed the King to Oxford to his loss, having previously had losses in Ireland, and died early in 1644, leaving his memory to be defended in a rather affecting document by his widow, Ursula.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

Rosa, Cristofano, VIII, 50 , 51 , 104 ; IX, 177 Rosa, Stefano, VIII, 50 , 51 , 104 ; IX, 177 Rosselli, Bernardo (Bernardo del Buda ) Rosselli, Cosimo, Life , III, 187 -190; IV, 82 , 125 , 126 , 151 , 165 ; V, 88 , 229 Rosselli, Pietro, IV, 159 ; VII, 68 , 69 Rossellino, Antonio (Rossellino dal Proconsolo), Life , III, 139 -144; II, 253 ; III, 44 , 139 -144, 253 ; IV, 275 Rossellino, Bernardo, Life , III, 139 -144; III, 44 , 139 -144, 268 Rossellino dal Proconsolo (Antonio Rossellino ) Rossetti, Giovan Paolo, VIII, 204 , 210 Rossi, Francesco de' (Francesco Salviati ) Rossi, Giovan Battista de' (Il Rosso )
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

It resembles a regularly reticulated green purse, from four to six inches long, and is composed of a vast number of tubular cylindrical cells, which adhere to one another by their rounded extremities, the points of junction corresponding to the knots or intersections of the network.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Ah, Rudolf Rassendyll, God preserve me from a conscience that won’t let me be true to the woman I love, or to the friends who love me!”
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

This motion, coming from a man who was never reckoned an advanced Liberal, naturally hastened the awakening of German feeling; and on February 27 the Baden Liberals met at Mannheim, and decided to summon a meeting at Carlsruhe, at which they intended to put forward the demand for a really representative German Parliament.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice