6553 Quotations with Ness.
- 401. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 402. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...

- 403. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...

- 404. Ambrose Bierce: MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and vie ...

- 405. Ambrose Bierce: MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...

- 406. Ambrose Bierce: MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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- 407. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...

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

- 409. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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- 410. Ambrose Bierce: OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedne ...

- 411. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...

- 412. Ambrose Bierce: PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat pref ...

- 413. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...

- 414. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The ...

- 415. Ambrose Bierce: RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having in ...

- 416. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...

- 417. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inh ...

- 418. Ambrose Bierce: RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

- 419. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...

- 420. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...

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