1783 Quotations with Test.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching th ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 125. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry our ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in t ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who nev ...
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