3459 Quotations with Bein.
- 181. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance t ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of or ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested wit ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
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