Serial, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Misdemeanor, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
Felon, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Abscond, v.i. To “move in a mysterious way,” commonly with the property of another.
Robber, n. A candid man of affairs.
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Creditor, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Technicality, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: “Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon […]
Once Law was sitting on the bench And Mercy knelt a-weeping. “Clear out!” he cried, “disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping. Upon your knees if you appear, ‘Tis plain you have no standing here.” Then Justice came. His Honor cried: “Your states? – Devil seize you!” – “Amica curiae,” she replied – “Friend of […]
