65 Metaphors for tongued

It would be an awful blow to him to know that Old Simon is actually his grandfather; and there's no need, now, to tell him. "'Where ignorance is bliss,' you know the rest, And a still tongue is generally the best.

The minister began: "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Now, the tongue of a Government wagon is a very different thing.

Be it so, my good women, only remember this: that as long as you say that, you confess that you are not masters of your tongues, but your tongues are masters of you, and that you freely confess you owe service to your tongue, and not to God.

Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of 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.

But fading flowers in every field, To winter floods their treasures yield; A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

"'That no man may have to put up through life with the unceasing clatter of the tongue of Misticoosis, she will be from this time the unbeautiful aspen tree, while her tongue shall be the leaves that will never again be still even in the gentlest breeze.

This time I knew that the tongue was Cherokee, a speech I could recognize but could not follow.

Your seaman's tongue is a true bed of Procrustes for the unhappy words that roll over it.

Why, now you see what 'tis to cross a king, Deal against princes of the royal blood, You'll snarl and rail, but now your tongue is bedrid, Come, caperhay, set all at six and seven; What, musest thou with thought of hell or heaven? SKINK.

The language of this light-hearted and noisy race was Dutch, already corrupted by English idioms, and occasionally by English words;a system of change that has probably given rise to an opinion, among some of the descendants of the earlier colonists, that the latter tongue is merely a patois of the former.

" "Good friar, thy tongue is something harsh, methinks.

So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause, With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning, While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So fam'd for his talent in nicely discerning.

I shall feele her hurt, her tongue is her owne, so are her hands; mum, mum, no words against your wife.

Of course, he did not know any Irish, but he knew Italian and the then universal tongue of the learnedLatin, in both of which were tales of visits to the other world; and the greater part of these tales, as well as those most resembling Dante's work in form and spirit, were Irish in origin.

"My tongue is not always my heart.

Verily, if tempora mutantur, we may question the et nos mutamur in illis; and if tongues be leaky, it will need all hands at the pumps to save the Ship of State.

We know him, we love him, we always remember him as the year comes round, and the blithest song our brazen tongues utter is a Christmas carol to the Father of 'The Chimes!'

And this divine did marry me, Whose tongue should be the key to open truth, As God's ambassador.

A scurry of many feet running towards the scene; a shouting of twenty voices around him; but all that Whistling Dan saw were the fangs of Bart as they gnashed fruitlessly at the wrists of Mac Strann, and then the great red tongue lolling out and the eyes bulging from their socketsall he heard was the snarling of the wolf and the peculiar whine of rage which came from the throat of the man-beast fighting the wolf.

"The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of any language in the world."See

She sang the triumph of the confederacy, the bonds that linked the Elder Brothers and Elder Sons with the Esaurora, whose tongue was the sign of council unity.

no small sign of wisdom to talk much; his tongue therefore goes continually his errand, but never speeds.

The cook either roasted it, and served it up on the spit, or boiled it and sent it in with peas; the tongue and the tail were favourite parts.

In his mouth nations spake; his tongue might be Interpreter to Greece, France, Italy.

65 Metaphors for  tongued