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THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY. Ambrose Bierce. Barbed, bitter, brilliant
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ARTHUR CLEVELAND BENT
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Transcriber’s Note:
Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent
hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged, as were
obsolete and alternative spellings. Eleven misspelled words were
corrected.
Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like
this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. One
footnote was moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors,
such as partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected.
Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were
added.
In the List of Literature Cited, entry for Burtch, Verdi, the page
number was changed from “340-241” to “340-341.”