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«NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.»
«NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
combatant, combatants, Quaker, Quakers
«NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.»
«NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. --J.G.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
banquets, deities, Juno, Olympian, rye
«MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.»
«MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both.»
«ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
objectionable, personal pronoun, pro, pronoun
«MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.»
«MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation --Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class --altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bacilli, bacillus, Considering, discern, inability, innate, Leibnitz, microbe, microbes, molecule, molecules, monad, needful, theory of, theory of evolution, The Microscope, unit
«MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attests, derivation, derivations, formerly, human head, ministers, orient, oriented, orients, Political affairs, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy, Public affairs, reigning, Russia, the Monarch
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