PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it."

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Conspicuous	Dazzles	Explosion	Having
Kind	Kinds	Most	Nose
Observer	Oratorical	Peculiarity	Peroration
Powder	Preparing	Rocket	Several
Smell	Used	Wrong

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