RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp."

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Beverage	Brewed	Conscience	Dismal
Imagination	Lethargine	Midnight	Most
Mystic	Narcotize	Novelists	Obtundite
Poets	Popular	Regulate	Ricewater
Rich	Secretly	Swamp	Used

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