1763 London Mag. Feb. 94/2 The last act is rather a Richardsonian narration, than part of a dramatic action.

1786 A. Seward Let. 29 Mar. (1811) I. 135 Miss Reeves' reply to my Stricture on her Richardsonian absurdity, is at once weak and artful.

1831 T. B. Macaulay Let. 31 May in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. iv. 210 When my Richardsonian epistles are published there must be dull as well as amusing letters among them.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 68 To demonstrate that the Richardsonian principle was the best on which love could possibly be made.

1930 A. Birrell Et Cetera ix. 161 Doddridge's love affairs are narrated by him at Richardsonian length.

1952 Ess. in Crit. 2 388 Fielding ridiculed the Richardsonian use of the present tense in Shamela.

2002 Mod. Lang. Rev. 97 396 She gives a fascinating analysis of the resumption and transformation..of Richardsonian methods and themes.

1778 H. L. Thrale Let. 11 Nov. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) II. cxcvi. 31 You are a Richardsonian yourself.

1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ i. 32 The great Napoleon was a true Richardsonian.

1932 J. M. S. Tompkins Pop. Novel in England 1770–1800 iv. 120 Such arrant Richardsonians as..the inevitable book-sellers' hacks.

1966 L. Fiedler Love & Death in Amer. Novel (rev. ed.) iii. 84 It was..precisely ‘the story’ that the female Richardsonians sought to extricate and recreate.

1997 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 37 Many Richardsonians..may have to clutch their chests and reach for their nitroglycerine pills.

1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. June 766/2 My own investigation of a kindred quarter of the globe (Clarissa Harlowe) has led me to set a high value on the Richardsonians. Lovelace..Colonel Morden and my Lord M—— are all gentlemen of undisputed quality.

1887 Art Amateur Aug. 62/2 I do not mean that our good work must needs be Richardsonian or Romanesque or Byzantine, but that it must be as fully based on aesthetic freedom and good sense as was Richardson's work.

1922 Art & Archaeol. 13 279/2 In the ensuing years much that was dreadful sprang into being under the name of Richardsonian.

1943 Art Bull. 36 13/2 Buffington is known to architectural students today as an exponent of the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

1963 D. Thomas in A. L. McLeod Pattern Austral. Culture 387 A Richardsonian Romanesque in stone often became an alternative to red brick for offices and banks.

2000 K. B. Eckert Sandstone Archit. Lake Superior Region ii. 120 This huge house is one of the most dynamic examples of Richardsonian masonry in the upper Middle West.