Bierce
Speech parts
1. Bierce - Noun
2. Bierce - Proper noun
Meaning
United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914)
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Examples
In 1912, Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation – the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written thus ‿ and presents a smiling mouth.
Dreams and nightmares—what Ambrose Bierce called “visions of the night”—are the basis of some of the greatest weird fiction in literary history.