384 Quotations with Origin.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly disc ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ing ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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- 26. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal l ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the origina ...
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