The Devil’s Dictionary by Abrose Bierce

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n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.
The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face — ’Twas pallid, for ’twas clean.
“This is the end,” the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones.
Tinley Roquot
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