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Definition of Ambrose Bierce
1. Noun. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrose Bierce
Literary usage of Ambrose Bierce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells (1920)
"... AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE * BY Ambrose Bierce A MAN stood upon a railroad bridge in
northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. ..."
2. California the Wonderful: Her Romantic History, Her Picturesque People, Her by Edwin Markham, Leonore MacKay (1914)
"Bierce: Satire, Romance, Philosophy Ambrose Bierce looms large in literary ...
The genius of Ambrose Bierce travels in many fields—in romance, satire, ..."
3. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"THE DAMNED THING BY Ambrose Bierce BIT THE light of a tallow candle, which had
been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written ..."
4. Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits by Ella Sterling Mighels (1918)
"Ambrose Bierce. Nole: This great poem has been the Inspiration of other great
poems.—The Gatherer. {This poem T»as first read at a Fourth of July ..."
5. A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems by George Sterling (1908)
"... TO Ambrose Bierce t Master, when worms have had their will of thee, And thou
art but a voice along the years— A star in the companionship of spheres ..."
6. The Best Psychic Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"THE EYES OP THE PANTHER* BY Ambrose Bierce I ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE
A MAN and a woman—nature had done the grouping—sat on a rustic seat, ..."
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