5379 Quotations with Over.
- 441. Ambrose Bierce: PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.
- 442. Ambrose Bierce: PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of ...
- 443. Ambrose Bierce: QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal l ...
- 444. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 445. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 446. Ambrose Bierce: RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of L ...
- 447. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 448. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 449. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 450. Ambrose Bierce: RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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- 451. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 452. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 453. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 454. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 455. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
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- 456. Ambrose Bierce: SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It w ...
- 457. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 458. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 459. Ambrose Bierce: SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's ...
- 460. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
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