The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010年9月15日 - 440页 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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... body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. Jogo Tyree. [2.] Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; THE UNAB ...
... body's cerements, and asbestine shrouds have gone out of fashion. Asperse, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. Ass, n. A public singer with a good voice ...
... Body-snatcher, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. “One night,” a doctor said, “last fall, I and my comrades, four in all ...
... a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further 32 : THE UNABRIDGED DEVIL's DICTIONARY.
Ambrose Bierce David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi. By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And ...