4364 Quotations with Ring.
- 221. Ambrose Bierce: DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds ...
- 222. Ambrose Bierce: DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
- 223. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 224. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 225. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 226. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 227. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 228. Ambrose Bierce: FORCE, n.
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- 229. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 230. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 231. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 232. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 233. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...
- 234. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands ...
- 235. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 236. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 237. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 238. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 239. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 240. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
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