2629 Quotations with Form.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there ap ...

- 142. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...

- 143. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...

- 144. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...

- 145. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...

- 146. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...

- 147. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...

- 148. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...

- 149. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...

- 150. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...

- 151. Ambrose Bierce: EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of masticatio ...

- 152. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...

- 153. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...

- 154. Ambrose Bierce: FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an op ...

- 155. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 156. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 157. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...

- 158. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...

- 159. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
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- 160. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...

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