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" ... edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions... "
A life of Washington Irving - Page 9
by Washington Irving - 1882
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used...to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, that held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edgetool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used...in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used...to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 13; Volume 31

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...a tart temper never mellows with nge, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, that held its sessions on a bench before a small inn designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, ' and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with * constant use. For a long while he used...to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk ' listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about ' nothing. But it would...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 504 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age. f and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with ' constant use. For a long while he used...his Majesty George the Third. Here ' they used to sii in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talk ' listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used...in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have...
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Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and ...

1826 - 654 pages
...while he used to comiŠ¾le himself, when driven from home by frequenting a kind of perpetual cluhof the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages...His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit iu the shade of a long lazy summer's day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, that held its sessions on a bench before a small mn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his majesty...
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