719 Quotations with General.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 44. Ambrose Bierce: HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally ab ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Bre ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance o ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
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- 60. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
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