 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 pages
...age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages,...Third. Here they used to sit in the shade, of a long, 5 lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 pages
...matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only instrument that grows keener with constant use. For a long while...perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle parsonages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn designated by a rubicund... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 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 - 1983 - 1198 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, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - 1983 - 52 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... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1986 - 366 pages
...appropriate funds and lives on the wrong continent. He hunts, fishes, and frequents a Scriblerus-like club "which held its sessions on a bench before a small...rubicund portrait of His majesty George the Third." As punishment more for his un-American sloth than for sloth in general, this figure of cultural nostalgia... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - 84 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...to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - 840 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... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...mortals, of foolish, well-oiled disposi tions , who take the world easy... " Rip can communicate with that perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the vil lage. However, Rip cannot really be happy or content in these settings; wherever he goes, he can... | |
 | Brian Thomsen - 2002 - 612 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... | |
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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... 
