853 Quotations with Lack.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance o ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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- 51. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It i ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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- 55. Ambrose Bierce: RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
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- 56. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
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