1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 541. Ambrose Bierce: NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
- 542. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 543. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 544. Ambrose Bierce: NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown ...
- 545. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...
- 546. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 547. Ambrose Bierce: OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience ...
- 548. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 549. Ambrose Bierce: OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their p ...
- 550. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 551. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 552. Ambrose Bierce: OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and ...
- 553. Ambrose Bierce: OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is lar ...
- 554. Ambrose Bierce: OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance o ...
- 555. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 556. Ambrose Bierce: OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bish ...
- 557. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...
- 558. Ambrose Bierce: OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
- 559. Ambrose Bierce: ONCE, adv. Enough.
- 560. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
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