20587 Quotations with Ther.
- 1401. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...

- 1402. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...

- 1403. Ambrose Bierce: TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the indiv ...

- 1404. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...

- 1405. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...

- 1406. Ambrose Bierce: TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
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- 1407. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...

- 1408. Ambrose Bierce: UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another ...

- 1409. Ambrose Bierce: URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in al ...

- 1410. Ambrose Bierce: VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
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- 1411. Ambrose Bierce: VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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- 1412. Ambrose Bierce: W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, th ...

- 1413. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...

- 1414. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...

- 1415. Ambrose Bierce: WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of ...

- 1416. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...

- 1417. Ambrose Bierce: WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty b ...

- 1418. Ambrose Bierce: WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The conte ...

- 1419. Ambrose Bierce: WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted charact ...

- 1420. Ambrose Bierce: YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New En ...

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