1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 641. MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent i ...
- 642. MINOR, adj. Less objectionable.
- 643. MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep an ...
- 644. MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand o ...
- 645. MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, ...
- 646. MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim ...
- 647. MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhors ...
- 648. Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
- 649. MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss ...
- 650. Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Mis ...
- 651. Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Mis ...
- 652. MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also ...
- 653. MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as near ...
- 654. MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word ...
- 655. MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
- 656. MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of cu ...
- 657. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
- 658. MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifyin ...
- 659. MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advan ...
- 660. MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or ca ...
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