2377 Quotations with Ears.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there ap ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his e ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on t ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It app ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching th ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 137. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
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