889 Quotations with Mode.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...

- 42. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...

- 43. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...

- 44. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 45. Ambrose Bierce: GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia ...

- 46. Ambrose Bierce: HEAT, n.
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- 47. Ambrose Bierce: IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and ...

- 48. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...

- 49. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...

- 50. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...

- 51. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...

- 52. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...

- 53. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...

- 54. Ambrose Bierce: NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its ...

- 55. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...

- 56. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 57. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...

- 58. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...

- 59. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...

- 60. Ambrose Bierce: PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."

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