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" Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. "
Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for ... - Page 109
by Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 157 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 console himself, when driven...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 himself, when driven...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edgetool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 console himself, when driven...
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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
...seems, was afflicted with incurable idleness, and also, as he well deserved, with a scolding wife. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...matrimony rolled on ; 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...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 502 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 console himself, when...
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 2

1821 - 504 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 himself, when driven...
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Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and ...

1826 - 654 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled ou ; a tart temper never mellows with ¡ige, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

1828 - 394 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. . Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on'; a ta/t temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant...
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