4954 Quotations with Able.
- 401. Ambrose Bierce: REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the origina ...

- 402. Ambrose Bierce: RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave.

- 403. Ambrose Bierce: RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for ...

- 404. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...

- 405. Ambrose Bierce: RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, F ...

- 406. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...

- 407. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...

- 408. Ambrose Bierce: RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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- 409. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...

- 410. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...

- 411. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...

- 412. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...

- 413. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...

- 414. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...

- 415. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...

- 416. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...

- 417. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...

- 418. Ambrose Bierce: TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irr ...

- 419. Ambrose Bierce: TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitati ...

- 420. Ambrose Bierce: TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of ...

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