1783 Quotations with Test.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 147. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitati ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversarie ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
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