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The collected works of Ambrose Bierce

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

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VOLUME I ASHES OF THE BEACON THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW FOR THE AHKOOND JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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VOLUME IV SHAPES OF CLAY

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VOLUME V BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER

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VOLUME VII THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

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Wall Street, n.

Washingtonian, n.

Whangdepootenawah, n.

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Worms'-meat, n.

[Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show!]

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Portable, adj.

[_]

Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

[His light estate, if neither he did make it]

His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperty, I take it.

Worgum Slupsky.