...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. He was fain to take to the outside qf the house. 14 Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle...

...certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving (1783-1859) American author Temptation Thou strong seducer, Opportunity. John Drydcn...

...didn't talk than why you did. Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only sharp-edged tool that grows keener with constant use. What isn't said can't come back to hurt. Wise...

...subdue himself. Washington Irving captured this truth in Rip Van Winkle's complaint about his wife: "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." James' bleak assertion is compounded by two additional adjective phrases. First, the tongue is an "unruly"...

...evil because of the damage it can cause in the world and bring to the rest of the Christian community. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use — Washington Irving WORD PICTURES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR SPEECH In James 3. several word pictures...

...shed more light of the technological divergence we see there. BIG TALKERS? THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle (1819-20) It would be wonderful if phonemes, morphemes, nouns, verbs,...

...person of Dame Van Winkle— is too threatening. On the one hand, she is represented as a castrator. 'A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use' (p. 31). Rip is thus aptly named: 'rip' as a gash suggests castration, while 'RIP' indicates its psychic...

...December 7 No man can climb out beyond the limitation of his own character. -John Morley January 10 A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving February 8 The eye is the window of the soul; the intellect and will are seen in...

...scraper blade can last for years. LADDERS TASHINGTON IRVING, author of "Rip Van Winkle," observed that "a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." What's Rung with This Picture? •!• Before you use an old wooden straight ladder, set it on the...

...epigram also appears as an entry, 1898, in Twain Notebook, ch. 31 , ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935). A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp...only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 5 I can resist everything except temptation. OSCAR WILDE, (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright, author....