1589 Quotations with America.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although h ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 63. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the Ame ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It i ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 71. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nea ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the pla ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on t ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
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