1667 Quotations with Ming.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stoc ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 85. Ambrose Bierce: HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 86. Ambrose Bierce: HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the a ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individuall ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A pa ...
- 100. P. J. O'Rourke: Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming a ...
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