1869 Quotations with Ende.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.
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- 102. Ambrose Bierce: AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expe ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is be ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 105. Ambrose Bierce: DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in f ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stoc ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 117. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 120. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
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