4161 Quotations with Take.
- 241. Ambrose Bierce: CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indig ...
- 242. Ambrose Bierce: DANGER, n.
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- 243. Ambrose Bierce: DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misf ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 245. Ambrose Bierce: DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching th ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 253. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 255. Ambrose Bierce: INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake f ...
- 256. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 258. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
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