2673 Quotations with Side.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...

- 122. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...

- 123. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...

- 124. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...

- 125. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...

- 126. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...

- 127. Ambrose Bierce: EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, ...

- 128. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...

- 129. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 130. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 131. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
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- 132. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...

- 133. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...

- 134. Ambrose Bierce: GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outsid ...

- 135. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...

- 136. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...

- 137. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...

- 138. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...

- 139. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...

- 140. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...

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