1791 Quotations with Rent.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms ou ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of ant ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: REALLY, adv. Apparently.
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- 112. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful der ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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- 119. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...
- 120. H. L. Mencken: A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience ...
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