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Instrument Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
- Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
- FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
- PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided…
- Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
- Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two…
- HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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