1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 301. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 302. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 303. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 304. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 305. Ambrose Bierce: HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thr ...
- 306. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 307. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 308. Ambrose Bierce: HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.
- 309. Ambrose Bierce: HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fur ...
- 310. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...
- 311. Ambrose Bierce: HASH, x. There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what hash is.
- 312. Ambrose Bierce: HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk.
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- 313. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 314. Ambrose Bierce: HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage.
- 315. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 316. Ambrose Bierce: HEAT, n.
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- 317. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 318. Ambrose Bierce: HEBREW, n. A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior ...
- 319. Ambrose Bierce: HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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- 320. Ambrose Bierce: HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is ...
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