3446 Quotations with Author.
- 241. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 242. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 243. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 245. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diploma ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...
- 253. Ambrose Bierce: PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absenc ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of ...
- 255. Ambrose Bierce: RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fra ...
- 256. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 258. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It w ...
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