1765 Quotations with Made.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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- 123. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words e ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satis ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the origina ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inh ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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- 138. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty b ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra ...
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