2035 Quotations with Sent.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 123. Ambrose Bierce: GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
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- 127. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomac ...
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