Bierce is the author of such works as "The Devil's Dictionary" and "Incident at Owl's Creek Bridge.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes] Reference

But it is interesting that you self-identify with literary cynics such as Bierce and Mencken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Earth to Fox: Valerie Plame Wilson Was Covert] Reference

In June 1864 Bierce was shot in the head and after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?)] Reference

If they count Bierce as a noir influence, I am so there.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Did Last Night And Why You Should Come To The Makeout Room This Saturday] Reference

Says Bierce: Obviously an asylum cannot be unsound in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: HOBGOBLINS.] Reference

Bierce had also seen distinguished service in the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes] Reference

And those were written by Ambrose Bierce between 1881 and 1887.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing New Under the Sun] Reference

Twain and Bierce and generations of humorous political writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Funny Guy Wins] Reference

That makes Bierce sound like a caricature of a humorless pedant.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves] Reference

My perspective is much more Ambrose Bierce than Alexis de Toqueville.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogs about Mexico] Reference

A little bit of Ambrose Bierce -- or perhaps he's in your tree somewhere?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presenting The Genealogist's Glossary] Reference

I love Bierce by Jennifer Hathaway on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 12: 59: 42 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Third Daily Dose of Medicine From Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" �� It's Just What the Doctor Ordered!] Reference

Even a home-schooled moron like you should have some familiarity with Bierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Earth to Fox: Valerie Plame Wilson Was Covert] Reference

Bierce enlisted in the Union Army in April 1861, following the firing upon Fort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?)] Reference

This was know to Bierce and Twain over 100 years ago, and H.L. Mencken after them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

War, Ambrose Bierce once observed, is God's way of teaching Americans geography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the News: February 2003] Reference

Ambrose Bierce would have written the most grotesque, witty, and carnival-y dirges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvati dunque e scolpati] Reference

RT @bnreviewer: @MaudNewton unearths an arrestingly nasty swipe from Ambrose Bierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweets] Reference

I know it wasn't Mac oh ,no not my Mac the "Ambrose Bierce of Ufology", so who did it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

Ambrose Bierce wrote that disobedience was the silver lining to the cloud of servitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [home] Reference

To Ambrose Bierce it was a “form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punditry] Reference

Bierce by Jacob Silverstein in the February 2002 issue of the esteemed Harper's Magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?)] Reference

Ambrose Bierce, in his description of a barometer, beautifully illustrates the Empty Suits.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Crush] Reference

Ambrose Bierce once quipped that a university is "a modern school where football is taught.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gregory S. Evans: Higher Education Key To Improving Economy, Yet McCain Lacks Specifics On Help] Reference

There are 129 author entries in the Library of Congress 'online Catalogue for "Ambrose Bierce.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Occasional Definitions from The Devil's Dictionary] Reference

Indeed, as Ambrose Bierce suggests, it may be positively contrary to your suggested definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed] Reference

Bierce also, after the Civil War, went to San Francisco, where he was a columnist for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876] Reference

Bierce had a gift for discerning usage errors where no one else would have thought there was anything amiss.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves] Reference

Re Lent, Bierce put it best: the abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I blog for the hell of it, to express myself, and to figure out the world as I go along, the best I can."] Reference

It's probably not the origin of the trope, as shown in the Bierce piece you quoted, but it's the first place I encountered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supernatural Does Ghouls] Reference

One guy nobody's heard from since he went off to South America and most likely in the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce if you get my meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference

Bierce has often been compared to famed horror writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Ambrose Bierce spoke of the racial problem in the 1870s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Bierce was a noted short story writer with a large following akin to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Bierce wrote mostly short stories and these 40 or so collected here run about 5 or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

It is easy to imagine that Bierce has provided a model for contemporary supernatural writers like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Bierce received the e-mail early Tuesday and later called the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference