2641 Quotations with Thro.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a w ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 149. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It i ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession ...
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