1872 Quotations with Stat.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find t ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private stat ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 89. Ambrose Bierce: EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 91. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 97. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and pu ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
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