Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Ambrose BiercePLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
Ambrose BierceFork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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