821 Quotations with Gent.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 47. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: KNIGHT, n.
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- 53. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomac ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual d ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
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