 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 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...of perpetual club of the sages , philosophers , and otheridle personages of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn , designated... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Win kle, 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... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pages
...our toils and make our hearts rejoice. ii Never act in the heat of emotion ; let reason answer first. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Dean Swift says — " It is with little-souled people as it is with narrow-necked bottles — the less... | |
 | Washington Irving - Gift books - 1853 - 304 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...home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sagos, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle äs years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edgo tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 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 i* fhe only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console hin№lf,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 478 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 shargJanguejaJlie.OTly edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 648 pages
...are now prepared tt) consider several classes of sins against this commandment. I. WRONG FEELINGS. 11 A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged-tool that grows keener with constant use." — Irving. 1. One of the tempers very unfriendly... | |
 | Eliza Cook - Aphorisms and apothegms - 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,... | |
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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. 
