 | John Hamer - American wit and humor - 1883 - 338 pages
...at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. use. For a long while he used to console himself,...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... | |
 | John Hamer - American wit and humor - 1883 - 334 pages
...flee 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... | |
 | Jasper Newton Hunt, H. I. Gourley - English language - 1883 - 188 pages
...investment that never fails." — Thoreau. "Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue." — Emerson. " A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the ouly edged tool that grows keener with constant use." — Irving. "In the universe mind is first, it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 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...himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of peipctual club of the sagea, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village ; which held its... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...would fly to the door with yelping hurry. Times g'rew worse and worse with Hip van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on'; a tart temper never mellows...home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the old wiseheads, and other idle people of the village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 364 pages
...decay; So flourish these, when those are past away. — Shelley. (Simile, Antithesis, Metaphor.) 6. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Irving. 7. Where shall wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding? — Bible. 8.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 364 pages
...course decay; So flourish these, when those are past away.—Shelley. (Simile, Antithesis, Metaphor.) 6. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.—Irving. 7. Where shall wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding?—Bible. 8.... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...precipitation. From Latin jirxceps, headlong. 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 1 that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he vised to console himself, when driven from... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...stronger by being put in the interrogative form. 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 l that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 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 edged-tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
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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. 
