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. For a long while he used to console himself when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of... The Structure of the English Sentence - Page 10by Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1900 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1820 - 646 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' 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 with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
| 1819 - 610 pages
...and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 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 with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...seems, was afflicted with incurable idleness, and also, as he well deserved, with a scolding wife. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...matrimony rolled on ; 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... | |
| 1821 - 502 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...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... | |
| 1821 - 504 pages
...termagant wife, and of the various pastimes with which he sought to cheat the miseries of his thraldom. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age. f and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with ' constant use. For a long while... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 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... | |
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