1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 421. HEBREW, n. A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior creation.
- 422. HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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- 423. Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
- 424. HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on a ...
- 425. HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
- 426. HERS, pron. His.
- 427. HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popul ...
- 428. HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself ...
- 429. HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.
- 430. Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
- 431. HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers ...
- 432. HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours ...
- 433. HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, ...
- 434. HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of ...
- 435. HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
- 436. HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last bot ...
- 437. Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary ...
- 438. HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 439. HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostilit ...
- 440. HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Muss ...
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