4954 Quotations with Able.
- 321. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 322. Ambrose Bierce: IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espous ...
- 323. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 324. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 325. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 326. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 327. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 328. Ambrose Bierce: INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Bre ...
- 329. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 330. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 331. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 332. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 333. Ambrose Bierce: LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable pr ...
- 334. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 335. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
- 336. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 337. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 338. Ambrose Bierce: LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to ha ...
- 339. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 340. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
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