| Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 σελίδες
...? 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 - 1878 - 186 σελίδες
...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 at the least nourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation, i/"* Times grew... | |
| 1880 - 516 σελίδες
...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,...matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with ago, an 3 a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 σελίδες
...or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance ar Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick.... Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart C•temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener-with... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 σελίδες
...fell , his tail dropped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,...would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. 40). whichever can be got etc. wortl. welches von beiden etc., besser deutsch: ,,je oacbdem sie eins... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 σελίδες
...more conducive to effeminacy then to strength, more favorable to elegance of thought than to grandeur. 'A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.' Pope's increasing pride and irritability, his supercilious contempt of struggling authors, raised around... | |
| mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 σελίδες
...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 at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. VAN WINKLE AT THE INN. Times grew worse and worse... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 550 σελίδες
...fell, his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows ai^ casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,...rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, Cl and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while... | |
| 1881 - 884 σελίδες
...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...would fly to the door with yelping precipitation." The pity which Rip and Wolf felt for the " dog's life" led by both — the vow of friendship which... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 σελίδες
...drooped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many «i sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least...broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.17 1 5. Poor Rip was .at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only alternative to... | |
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