 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 Irving Gift: Being Choice Gems - Page 30by Washington Irving - 1853 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...with a. gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 10. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with...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... | |
 | Baptists - 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... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...of a broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. VAN WINKLE AT THE INN. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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 - Readers - 1878 - 152 pages
...glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the 125 door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharg tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant~~use. FoT~a~long while he~used... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - Readers - 1878 - 206 pages
...? Why is it called his patrimonial estate ? What is meant by a " torrent of household eloquence " ? "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." To whom does this apply? What is the force of the word mallows t How did Rip escape from labor and... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1878 - 186 pages
...with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least nourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation, i/"* Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper... | |
 | Washington Irving, Spraque Homer Baxter - 1880 - 146 pages
...ladle, he would fly to the us door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Eip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...use. For a long while he used to console himself, ia> when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and... | |
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