1568 Quotations with Down.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder.
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- 63. Ambrose Bierce: DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over anoth ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 67. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
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- 69. Ambrose Bierce: HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharao ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down ...
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