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Results from The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):

ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool. They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! -- no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. M.P. Nopput: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. Judibras: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider. When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary's health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim: "My deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!" G.J.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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