 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 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,...never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grow - keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 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,...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 σελίδες
...gentle, undulating billows, rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores." l 'A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use/3 'As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 σελίδες
...fell, his tail dropped to the ground or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with ;i gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,...and, at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would Нее to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Kip Van Winkle... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 334 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,...and, at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, would flee to the door with yelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as... | |
 | Jasper Newton Hunt, H. I. Gourley - 1883 - 188 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 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,...would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. Poor Kip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 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,...broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.5 1 volley. Note the metaphorical use of the word. 2 fain (from Anglo-Saxon fagen, glad),... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 σελίδες
...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 - 1885 - 364 σελίδες
...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.... | |
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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... 
