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Senest opdateret 13. marts

Af Bierce, Ambrose

fra 1996 på forlaget Wordsworth Reference

Kategori: Øvrige

pris: 70 kr

Sideantal: 254
Indbinding: Paperback
The most famous dictionary after the OED and Webster's. The renowned author and journalist provides hilariously witty and wise definitions for common words in our language. For example: Abdication - an act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne; Abrupt - sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."