1084 Quotations with Resent.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the ...

- 62. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...

- 63. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 64. Ambrose Bierce: GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to ...

- 65. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...

- 66. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...

- 67. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...

- 68. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...

- 69. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...

- 70. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...

- 71. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...

- 72. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...

- 73. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...

- 74. Ambrose Bierce: MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from ...

- 75. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...

- 76. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...

- 77. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...

- 78. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...

- 79. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...

- 80. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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