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The Devil's Dictionary-Part36_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth be...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part35_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, b...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part34_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. TWICE, adv. Once too often. TYPE, n. Pestilent ...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part33_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an in...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part32_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. ...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part31_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. SLANG, n. The grunt of...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part30_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice. SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of o...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part29_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, be...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part28_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

man. REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neithe...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part27_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assenti...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part26_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. PRUDE...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part25_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is ...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part24_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and res...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part23_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

Harley Shum OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wil...

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The Devil's Dictionary-Part22_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much. MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with faint...

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