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An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
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