1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 481. IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
- 482. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored ...
- 483. IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the s ...
- 484. INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries a ...
- 485. INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it w ...
- 486. INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted stand ...
- 487. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Inco ...
- 488. Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
- 489. Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
- 490. INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the ...
- 491. INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be ...
- 492. INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
- 493. INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but ...
- 494. INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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- 495. INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious co ...
- 496. INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
- 497. INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
- 498. INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to ...
- 499. INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or s ...
- 500. INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one ...
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