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- 81. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry our ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: PRUDE, n. A bawd hiding behind the back of her demeanor.
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
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- 92. Ambrose Bierce: REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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- 93. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage ( ...
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