Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art."
Among | Body | Carnivorous | Carpenters |
Certain | Coffin | Commonly | Devouring |
Greeks | Kind | Made | Modern |
Obsequiographers | Peculiar | Placed | Product |
Property | Sarcophagus | Stone |