2827 Quotations with Under.
- 181. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching th ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 187. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limita ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
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