1504 Quotations with Wing.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death hav ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 107. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 109. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...
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