184 Quotations with Instrument.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we a ...

- 2. Calvin Coolidge: Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

- 3. Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of ...

- 4. Henry C. Rogers: Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instr ...

- 5. Henry Ward Beecher: Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

- 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a wor ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we ar ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his e ...

- 10. Ambrose Bierce: FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on t ...

- 11. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

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

- 13. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...

- 15. Ambrose Bierce: HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thr ...

- 16. Ambrose Bierce: JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth ...

- 17. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...

- 18. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...

- 19. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...

- 20. Ambrose Bierce: VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himsel ...

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