1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 901. REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of ref ...
- 902. REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and hand ...
- 903. REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knig ...
- 904. RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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- 905. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- 906. Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- 907. Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- 908. RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the sa ...
- 909. RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the ...
- 910. REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in comm ...
- 911. REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to viol ...
- 912. REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree ...
- 913. REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called t ...
- 914. REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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- 915. Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
- 916. REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.
- 917. REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without disc ...
- 918. REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of repro ...
- 919. REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is ...
- 920. REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of th ...
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