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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

Ambrose Bierce
Military, Army, Matter
Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Ambrose Bierce
War, Army, Thinking
Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.568, Library of America

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

Ambrose Bierce
Army, Escorting
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Ambrose Bierce
Army, Men, Hands
Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.14, Courier Corporation

Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.

Ambrose Bierce
Wall, Army, Wind
Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.104, Sheba Blake Publishing

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