954 Quotations with Night.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: KNIGHT, n.
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- 44. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more s ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
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- 54. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of ...
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