4161 Quotations with Take.
- 261. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 262. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 263. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 264. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 265. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never ...
- 266. Ambrose Bierce: PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and cus ...
- 267. Ambrose Bierce: POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of or ...
- 268. Ambrose Bierce: PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession ...
- 269. Ambrose Bierce: RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
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- 270. Ambrose Bierce: REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the ...
- 271. Ambrose Bierce: REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provid ...
- 272. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 273. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 274. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 275. Ambrose Bierce: SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For ...
- 276. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 277. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 278. Ambrose Bierce: TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
- 279. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
- 280. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
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