Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water."
Abbe | Account | Anthropomorphous | Believed |
Belloc | Bucket | Carcassonne | Exorcised |
Extinct | Fire | Having | Holy |
Immortal | Inhabiting | Last | Later |
Originally | Pyrophile | Reptile | Salamander |
Salamanders | Still | Water |