1725 Quotations with Light.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth ce ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry our ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...
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