AstraeaEach the herald is who wrote
His rank, and quartered his own coat.
There is no king nor sovereign state
That can fix a hero's rate;
Each to all is venerable,
Cap-a-pie invulnerable,…
by Ambrose Bierce BEFRIENDBEGGARBEG -v To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. Who is that, father?
A…
by Ambrose Bierce CAPITALCARNIVOROUSCARMELITE -n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where…
