Rabbit pie
Always made of cat.
Letter R
Riding (horseback)
Excellent exercise for reducing. E.g. all cavalry officers are thin. Excellent exercise for gaining weight. E.g. all cavalry officers are pot-bellied. "When he gets on a horse he's a regular centaur."
More from Letter R
Racine
Naughty boy!
Radicalism
All the more dangerous that it is latent. The Republic is hurtling forward into radicalism.
Raft
Always "of the Medusa."
Railways
If Napoleon had had them, he would have been invincible. Talk about them ecstatically, saying: "I, my dear sir, who am speaking to you now—this morning I was at X; I had taken the X train, I transacted my business there, and by X o'clock I was back here."
Railway stations
Gape with admiration; cite them as architectural wonders.