 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.  Selections from the Sketch Book - Page 42by Washington Irving - 1894 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 646 pages
...pastimes with which he 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...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
...broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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 - 1820 - 364 pages
...or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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 - 1822 - 424 pages
...or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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 - 1820 - 636 pages
...idleness, and also, as he well deserved, with a scolding wife. ' Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of 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 - 504 pages
...pastimes with which he 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. f and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with ' constant use. For a long while... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...broomstick or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart...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... | |
 | 1826 - 654 pages
...of matrimony rolled ou ; a tart temper never mellows with ¡ige, 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,... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 338 pages
...or ladle, would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 5. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart...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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