 | William Henry Maxwell - 1891 - 348 pages
...best.— Oarlyle. 8. I slept and dreamed that life is Beauty; I woke and found that life is Duty. 4. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Irving. 5. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man... | |
 | 1913 - 456 pages
...me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men. — John Burroughs. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle." G-od be thanked... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 160 pages
...moment Wolf entered the house, his crest fell ; his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs ; he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 422 pages
...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting...yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Eip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - 1894 - 300 pages
...Indians. 4. He said that his farm was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country. 5. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper with constant use. LXXXV. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. Many descriptive... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - 1894 - 188 pages
...be compound. Sometimes an independent clause in a compound sentence is itself compound or complex. A. tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant tise. The second independent clause in this sentence is... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...fool's heart is in his tongue ; but a wis« man's tongue is in his heart. — Quartet. TRADE. TRAVEL. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant rise. — Washington Irving. The heart's attorney. — Sliakespeare.... | |
 | Georgia. Department of Education - 1917 - 584 pages
...sentences will necessarily vary. 3. This is a compound sentence containing three independent members. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on is complex. Times is the subject substantive of the principal clause, grew the predicate verb, worse... | |
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... and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue ? The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and... 
