1002 Quotations with American.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 45. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the Ame ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It i ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 52. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nea ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the pla ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on t ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
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