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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.»
«HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.»
«HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.»
«HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.»
«HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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extinct, in the beginning, last century, Protestants, sect
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.»
«GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain --the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, edifying, gravitation, illustration, illustrations, quantity
«FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
flop, flopping, Flops, journals, Journal of, notable, partisan, partisans, Saul of Tarsus, tarsus, The Journal
«FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
annexation, freebooter, sanctifying, Small business
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