 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...rolled on : a tart temper 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 sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlesslv over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 pages
...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. For a long while...of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to Bit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly ovet village gossip, or telling... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 686 pages
...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...philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, that held its session* on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of his .Majesty... | |
 | American humour - 1883 - 334 pages
...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...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... | |
 | American humour - 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... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...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. For a long while...George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long, lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...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. For a long while...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1885 - 398 pages
...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. For a long while...George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long, lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...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...frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers,2 and other idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before... | |
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For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund... 
