2035 Quotations with Sent.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who nev ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 153. Ambrose Bierce: PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief th ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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- 157. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their o ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this wor ...
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