1849 Quotations with Place.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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- 146. Ambrose Bierce: PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that --
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- 147. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mort ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a pl ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
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