The Devil's DictionaryThe Floating Press, 1. jan. 2009 - 336 sider Dive into a masterpiece of American satirical writing. The Devil's Dictionary, compiled by famed American journalist and fiction writer Ambrose Bierce, offers readers a compendium of words and phrases with dictionary-style definitions that are blisteringly hilarious and packed with spot-on cynicism and dark humor. The format makes this book a great text for dipping into any time you need a quick laugh. |
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Side 5
... natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books — The Cym'e's This, The Cym'e's T hat, and The Cym'e's t'Other. Most of these books were merely ...
... natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books — The Cym'e's This, The Cym'e's T hat, and The Cym'e's t'Other. Most of these books were merely ...
Side 8
... natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this ...
... natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this ...
Side 13
... natural laws. ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto ...
... natural laws. ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto ...
Side 24
... a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain 24.
... a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain 24.
Side 36
... nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground ...
... nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground ...
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