1374 Quotations with Line.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 70. Ambrose Bierce: HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharao ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 75. Ambrose Bierce: LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a gre ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and vie ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
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