 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...shell of the soul, and dress is the husk of that shell ; but the husk often tells what the kernel is. A SHARP tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. EXAMINATIONS are formidable, even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more questions... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...Christian; and isn't it a pleasant companion, like a Christian? Lmer. n6 TREASURY OF TABLE TA LK. TEMPER. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving. A HAPPY UNION. Quin used to say, that of all the banns of marriage he ever heard,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...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...frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, Ehilosophers, and other idle personages of the village, which eld its session on a bench before a small... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...We often find dramatic pictures giving lectures of virtue, and leaving impressions of vice." TEMPER. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving. USELESS REGRETS. Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that's gone.... | |
 | Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 pages
...the gentleman, with a charming simplicity, " you are a complete proof to the contrary ! " TEMPER. — A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving. LORD LYTTELTON TO LADY BROWN. When I was young and debonnaire, The brownest... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle e silent sky, And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises G edge-tool that grows keener by constant иве. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
 | 1875 - 444 pages
...it and from the heart, thus rectified, grows a conformity in the life, the words, and the actions. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Irving. We take great liberties with those from whom we expect nothing. Some people are never happy... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...door with yelping precipitation. VAN WINKLE AT THE INN. 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 edge-tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 pages
...would fly to the 125 door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never...use. For a long while he used to console himself, 130. when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and... | |
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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. 
