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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januari 1914 - US writer
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 PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities. |
| PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. --Jali Hane |
| PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. |
| PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. |
| PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. --Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done --or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
| PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. |
| PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. --Judibras |
| PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. |
| PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians --who are Hogmies. |
| PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience. |
| PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction --prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. |
| PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. |
| PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. |
| Pitted against hard drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe |
| PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. |
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