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1216 Quotations with Found.

1. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a c ...
2. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served th ...
3. FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
4. GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
5. GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
6. GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
7. HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
8. HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
9. HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
10. IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
11. INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
12. LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
13. LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
14. LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
15. MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
16. MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and vie ...
17. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in ar ...
18. MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
19. MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion ...
20. PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. T ...

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