2379 Quotations with Nation.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, sepa ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to t ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) suc ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of f ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
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