1109 Quotations with Hold.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 62. Ambrose Bierce: DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.
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- 63. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
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- 68. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 72. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: ICHOR, n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood.
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- 74. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth ...
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