3108 Quotations with Ious.
- 261. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...

- 262. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...

- 263. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...

- 264. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...

- 265. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

- 266. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...

- 267. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...

- 268. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...

- 269. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...

- 270. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...

- 271. Ambrose Bierce: PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absenc ...

- 272. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...

- 273. Ambrose Bierce: RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

- 274. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...

- 275. Ambrose Bierce: RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having in ...

- 276. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...

- 277. Ambrose Bierce: RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals i ...

- 278. Ambrose Bierce: RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

- 279. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...

- 280. Ambrose Bierce: RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the ind ...

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