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- 121. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operat ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a comman ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same o ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outsid ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
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