746 Quotations with Cord.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The mos ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limita ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
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