or_, where [_Edgar_]
Ravenswood is swallowed up by a quicksand, is singularly grand in
romance, but would be inadmissible in a drama.--_Encyc. Brit._,
Art. "Romance."

=Rawhead and Bloody-Bones=, two bogies or bugbears, generally coupled
together. In some cases the phrase is employed to designate one and the
same "shadowy sprite."

Servants awe children ... by telling them of Rawhead and
Bloody-bones.--Locke.

=Ray.= One of two brothers, divided by the civil war. Beltran is in the
Southern army, Ray in the Northern. Both love the same woman whose heart
is Beltran's. The brothers met[TN-117] in battle and Beltran falls. Ray is
wounded and left for dead; recovers and makes his way homeward. There he
lives--undergoing volcanic changes, now passionless lulls, and now rages
and spasms of grief; "gradually out of them all he gathers his strength
about him," and wins Vivia's hand.--Harriet Prescott Spofford, _Ray_.

_Ray_ (_Will_), popular officer in a frontier brigade who steals through
the deadly line of Cheyennes drawn about a handful of U. S. soldiers,
and, followed by shots and yells, rides for his life and his comrades'
lives to the nearest encampment of troops and brings succor to the
devoted little band with the dawn of the day that, but for him, would
have been the last on earth for those left behind.--Charles King,
_Marion's Faith_ (1886).

=Rayland= (_Mrs._), the domineering lady of the _Old Manor-House_, by
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806).

Mrs. Rayland is a sort of Queen Elizabeth in private life.--Sir W.
Scott.

=Raymond=, count of Toulouse, the Nestor of the crusaders. He slays
Aladine, king of Jerusalem, and plants the Christian standard on the
tower of David.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, xx. (1516).

[Asterism] Introduced by Sir W. Scott in _Count Robert of Paris_, a
novel of the period of Rufus.

_Raymond_ (_Sir Charles_), a country gentleman, the friend and neighbor
of Sir Robert Belmont.

_Colonel Raymond_, son of Sir Charles, in love with Rosetta Belmont.
Being diffident and modest, Rosetta delights in tormenting him, and he
is jealous even of William Faddle "a fellow made up of knavery, noise
and impudence."

_Harriet Raymond_, daughter of Sir Charles, whose mother died in giving
her birth. She was committed to the care of a gouvernante, who changed
her name to Fidelia, wrote to Sir Charles to say that she was dead, and
sold her at the age of 12 to a