865 Quotations with Common.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involun ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage ( ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested wit ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite i ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in al ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 100. H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve ...
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