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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. "
The Sketch-book - Page 47
by Washington Irving - 1848
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' 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...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...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 by 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 - English literature - 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 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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 edgetool 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, Volume 84

English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...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 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 ...

English literature - 1826 - 654 pages
...of matrimony rolled ou ; a tart temper never mellows with Ħige, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use^ For a long while he used to comiоle himself, when driven from home by frequenting a kind of perpetual cluhof the sages, philosophers,...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...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 use. For a long while he used 16 console himself, when driven...
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The Academical Reader: Comprising Selections from the Most Admired Authors ...

John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...to the door with yelping precipitation. 5. 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...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...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...sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the Tillage ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...man was unfortunate indeed who had not the fortitude to bear up against those which had befallen Aim. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. The hidden ocean showed itself anew, And barren wasles...
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