...he sees me : and I cannot bear his reproaches. If they were not just, I might endure them. 'Though it is sharper than a serpent's tooth, To have a thankless child/ But what thanks does my miserable child, my David owe to me? I did very wrong in bringing him up as...

...she would give us such nice strawberries as we saw in the glass." CHAPTER IX. THE NAUGHTY BOYS. " Oh, it is sharper than a serpent's tooth To have a thankless child." j]HE next night, Thomas and Anna were able to go sooner to the glass than usual, as their grandmother...

...Nothing is found so hard for flesh and blood to bear as ingratitude. Even a poet of our own has said that it is " sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." Absalom's rebellion seems to have been David's heaviest trouble, and Judas Iscariot's treachery seems...

...other means of addressing them. Tears will choke his utterance if he can say no more than this; for it is "sharper than a serpent's tooth, to have a thankless child." And yet this is the service — "hear, oh Heavens ! and give ear, oh Earth!" — which man without...

...Nothing is found so hard for flesh and blood to bear as ingratitude. Even a poet of our own has said that it is " sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." Absalom's rebellion seems to have been David's heaviest trouble, and Judas Iscariot's treachery seems...

...••their father to maintain his hundred knights. The lesson of the play is not, as is generally supposed, that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child, but rather that it is silly in a man to suppose that, because his own instincts are generous, everybody...

...much. 3. If this is Christian work, I should like to be a slave, along with the barbarous Turk. 4. It is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child. 5. Sleep is an excellent thing. 6. Ah, well-a-day ! I had evil looks from old and young. 7. And see...

...n't care that I 'm sick and tired out. She 'd never offer to do a thing for me. Solomon was right, it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." Agnes pays no attention to the suggestion that she is to get dinner; so Mrs. Martin gets it herself,...

...Church I'd want to go to the Anglican." "Is that a nice thing to say to your mother? Oh, how true it is that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child." "Is that a nice thing to say to your daughter?" said unrepentant Valancy. So Valancy 's behaviour at...

...their father to maintain his hundred knights. The lesson of the play is not, as is generally supposed, that it is sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child, but rather lhat it is silly in a man to suppose that, because his own instincts are .generous, everybody...