1917 Quotations with Writ.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who nev ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffus ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tem ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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