Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
- Life
- 1842-1914
- Occupations
- writer, journalist, aphorist
- Notable works
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Damned Thing, The Devil's Dictionary
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