The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M09 15 - 440 páginas If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... living. Address, n. I. A formal discourse, usually delivered to a person who has something by a person who wants something that he has. 2. The place at which one receives the delicate attentions of creditors. Adherent, m. A follower who ...
... living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Ambrosia, n. The diet of the gods—the modern peanut. A Mensa et Thoro. (Latin, “from bed and board.”) A term of the divorce courts, but more properly applied to a man who has been kicked ...
... living lion, but not to eat. Bomb, or Bomb-shell, n. A besieger's argument in favor of capitulation, skillfully adapted to the understandings of the women and children. Bondsman, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to ...
... living! Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Calliope, n. One of ...
... living elsewhere. The grave whose headstone bore the famous inscription, Here lies me two children dear, One in ould Ireland, t'other one here, was a cenotaph, so far as regarded the “one in ould Ireland.” Censor, m. An officer of ...
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