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 47by Washington Irving - 1848Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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