2379 Quotations with Nation.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...

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

- 143. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste ...

- 144. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...

- 145. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...

- 146. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...

- 147. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...

- 148. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...

- 149. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...

- 150. Ambrose Bierce: LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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- 151. Ambrose Bierce: LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient f ...

- 152. Ambrose Bierce: MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open an ...

- 153. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...

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

- 155. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...

- 156. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...

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

- 158. Ambrose Bierce: PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of ...

- 159. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...

- 160. Ambrose Bierce: PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that --
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