1182 Quotations with Story.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperat ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to ha ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffus ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
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- 58. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
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