822 Quotations with Arts.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 43. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many pa ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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- 60. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...
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