1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 941. RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fo ...
- 942. RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
- 943. RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinemen ...
- 944. RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate t ...
- 945. RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompete ...
- 946. RICHES, n.
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- 947. RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignit ...
- 948. RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do o ...
- 949. RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower pa ...
- 950. RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguis ...
- 951. RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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- 952. Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
- 953. RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential ...
- 954. RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
- 955. ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is ...
- 956. ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
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- 957. ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the write ...
- 958. ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about ...
- 959. ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a can ...
- 960. ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his h ...
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