2319 Quotations with Call.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same o ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in con ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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- 107. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
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- 109. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth ce ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 120. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
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