1921 Quotations with Ratio.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 91. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally ab ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by ...
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