1830 Quotations with Tent.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things chee ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over a ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated b ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diploma ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words e ...
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