Skip directly to:Main content Main navigation

University of Virginia Library

The collected works of Ambrose Bierce

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

1.

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

4.

VOLUME IV SHAPES OF CLAY

5.

VOLUME V BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER

collapse section

7.

VOLUME VII THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

collapse section

Safety-Clutch, n.

6.

collapse section

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

211

Mammon, n.

[_]

The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

[He swore that all other religions were gammon]

He swore that all other religions were gammon,
And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.

Jared Oopf.