958 Quotations with Used.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an obse ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- 95. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
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