Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black."
Abdomen | Appareled | Black | Blue |
Boorioboolagha | Bright | Ceremony | Cows |
Dyed | Hideously | Made | Manner |
Must | Occasions | Omit | Paint |
Painted | Place | Please | Presentable |
Sheep | Sunset | Tail | Tails |
Time | Wear | Wool | York |