376 Quotations with Modern.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many pa ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...
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