1248 Quotations with Lent.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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- 103. Ambrose Bierce: INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake f ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient f ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fra ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the ind ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: RICHES, n.
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- 114. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: SANDLOTTER, n. A vertebrate mammal holding the political views of Denis Kearney, ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
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