Bierce

American  

[beers] / bɪərs /

noun

1. Ambrose (Gwinnett) 1842–1914?, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.

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Bierce British  

/ bɪəs /

noun

1. Ambrose ( Gwinett ). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)

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Example Sentences

What’s more, it turns out that the occultist’s inner circle included Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett and, most important, the Weird Tales author Clark Ashton Smith.

From Washington Post

Yet it was Sterling who gained the patronage of the famous writer Ambrose Bierce, Sterling who was named the poet laureate of San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

Locklin described this version of himself in a poem as “a starving Ambrose Bierce or some long-suffering, taller brother of Edgar Allan Poe.”

From Los Angeles Times

As a soldier in the Civil War, Bierce witnessed scenes of slaughter over what was, in important ways, a fight to control rivers.

From Washington Post

So, contrary to Ambrose Bierce's take from a century ago, people don't need to be wealthy or male to be philanthropists.

From Salon