1438 Quotations with Nature.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable pr ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of natur ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as bea ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...
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