6092 Quotations with Them.
- 421. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 422. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
- 423. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 424. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 425. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...
- 426. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 427. Ambrose Bierce: LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limita ...
- 428. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 429. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 430. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 431. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 432. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...
- 433. Ambrose Bierce: MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of natur ...
- 434. Ambrose Bierce: MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...
- 435. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 436. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...
- 437. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 438. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 439. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 440. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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