Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered absently 'When it is ajar', and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea!
Ambrose Bierce quote A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne [definition of a photograph]
Ambrose Bierce quote Cartesian: relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum 'Cogito Ergo Sum'.
Ambrose Bierce quote Clairvoyant: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce quote Crayfish: A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
Ambrose Bierce quote Carnivorous: Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Ambrose Bierce quote TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Ambrose Bierce quote Hibernate: to spend the Winter in domestic seclusion.
Ambrose Bierce quote Biography
US writer and satirist. Lived 1842 - 1914.
