5553 Quotations with Ions.
- 341. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 342. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 343. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 344. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 345. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 346. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 347. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 348. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 349. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 350. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...
- 351. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 352. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 353. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 354. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 355. Ambrose Bierce: HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of f ...
- 356. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 357. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 358. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 359. Ambrose Bierce: IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espous ...
- 360. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
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