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. Selections from the Sketch Book - Page 42by Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 550 pages
...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 temper never mellows with age, Cl and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while... | |
| Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...or ladle, would Нее to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Kip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...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...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grow - keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 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...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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...gentle, undulating billows, rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores." l 'A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use/3 'As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it... | |
| John Hamer - 1883 - 338 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. use. For a long while he used to console himself,...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... | |
| John Hamer - 1883 - 334 pages
...broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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... | |
| Jasper Newton Hunt, H. I. Gourley - 1883 - 188 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 tongue is the ouly edged tool that grows keener with constant use." — Irving. "In the universe mind is first, it... | |
| Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...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...himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of peipctual club of the sagea, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which held its... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...broom-stick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping hurry. Times g'rew worse and worse with Hip van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on'; a tart...home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the old wiseheads, and other idle people of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small... | |
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