 | Jasper Newton Hunt, H. I. Gourley - 1897 - 170 pages
...investment that never fails." — Thoreau. "Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue." — Emerson. " A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." — Irving. "All great virtues bear the impress of self-denial." — Ghanning. "Quickness is genius."... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle, as years of mat- ' rimony 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 console himself, when driven... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1897 - 248 pages
...Atfive sharp = À cinq heures, heure militaire. Keep a sharp eye on them = Surveillez-les de près. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use= [!RVING.] Une langue bien affilée est le seul instrument tranchant qui ne s'émousse pas par un usage... | |
 | 1898 - 200 pages
...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 on ; a tart...grows keener with constant use. For a long while he vised to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages,... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1898 - 200 pages
...form which it undergoes. 4. What causes these changes. 71 LESSON 56. QUOTATION MARKS. 1. Irving says, "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." Notice that the writer has copied into his sentence [quoted] the exact words of Irving. The two marks... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1898 - 412 pages
...broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door yelping. 6. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van AVinkle. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of club of idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 232 pages
...arduous work. Well "(thou) when Cx. Imp." tell i vou I wl i- |S when friend our -kd'=tous him that A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper with use. Cd. Cx. SD temper | tart and Cx. D. tongue is — tool a sharp the only edged that... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1898 - 200 pages
...called quotation marks. 2. Irving somewhere says that a tart temper never mellows with age, and that a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Does the writer use the exact words of Irving in this sentence ? Compare this sentence with the one... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...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 on ; a tart...of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and idle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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 on ; a tart...of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and idle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated... | |
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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. 
