1441 Quotations with Upon.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spi ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: GORGON, n.
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- 110. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 115. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 118. Ambrose Bierce: HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
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- 119. Ambrose Bierce: HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits.
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- 120. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
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