678 Quotations with Ices.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still che ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: BERENICE'S HAIR, n. A constellation (_Coma Berenices_) named in honor of one who ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imper ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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- 54. Ambrose Bierce: HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
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