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The Devil's Dictionary
| Author: | Bierce, Ambrose?
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 46 | |
| Number of readers who love this book: | 3 | |
| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972 | |
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... Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked....
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