1924 Quotations with Year.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 82. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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- 95. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, t ...
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