1568 Quotations with Rose.
- 881. Ambrose Bierce: TWICE, adv. Once too often.
- 882. Ambrose Bierce: TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enligh ...
- 883. Ambrose Bierce: TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite i ...
- 884. Ambrose Bierce: UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humil ...
- 885. Ambrose Bierce: ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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- 886. Ambrose Bierce: UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
- 887. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...
- 888. Ambrose Bierce: UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a hous ...
- 889. Ambrose Bierce: UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
- 890. Ambrose Bierce: UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another ...
- 891. Ambrose Bierce: URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in al ...
- 892. Ambrose Bierce: USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being C ...
- 893. Ambrose Bierce: UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
- 894. Ambrose Bierce: VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
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- 895. Ambrose Bierce: VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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- 896. Ambrose Bierce: VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
- 897. Ambrose Bierce: VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an i ...
- 898. Ambrose Bierce: VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himsel ...
- 899. Ambrose Bierce: W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, th ...
- 900. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
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