72 examples of tongue-tie in sentences

Donnegan knew that their eyes were miserably upon each other; the man tongue-tied by his guilt; the girl wretchedly guessing at the things which lay behind her fiancé's words.

Till then, I would consider the helpless girl, tongue-tied by her condition, and injured enough already by my misplaced love and its direful consequences.

Somehow, too, she was tongue-tied before him just when she wanted to be most eloquent in behalf of her principles; and that fretted her still more.

For some reason or other he felt tongue-tied.

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And anyway he couldn't say it, or anything else, for the first time in his life Henry Callandar was tongue-tied.

His stale spirit soared in ecstasy, and left him tongue-tied.

"But I get left-handed and tongue-tied, I guess, when it comes to being civilizedwhere there's a lady in the case.

Neither Mr. Spragg nor his wife had ever before been out of their country; and Undine had not understood, till they stood beside her tongue-tied and helpless on the dock at Cherbourg, the task she had undertaken in uprooting them.

Yet before her he was tongue-tied, incapable of uttering a consecutive sentence.

Meanwhile the fifteen or so experiments in contrapuntal prose were, in particular, uncharted passages from which I stayed unique in deriving pleasure where others found bewilderment and no tongue-tied irritation: but, in general, and above every misdemeanor else, the book exasperated everybody by not being a more successfully managed re-hashing of the then notorious "Jurgen.

" Mr. Lewisham was tongue-tied.

She missed his next remark because she was wondering whether she dare ask him to come to dinner on the twenty-fifth, and then the ladies had to retire, and by the time he rejoined her he was as tongue-tied as at the beginning.

' She obeyed, trembling, tongue-tied.

I am the original tongue-tied man; I ebb and flow.

A poignant grief is over the land, an almost desolation,full of unspoken sorrow, tongue-tied with unuttered complaint.

But all such feelings are poor and weak as compared with the sinking of the heart and the trembling of the knees which seize upon the unhappy lecturer as he advances towards his first audience, and as before his eyes rises a ghastly vision of a tongue-tied would-be lecturer, facing rows of listening faces, listening tosilence.

Look you, my lord, the gentleman's tongue-tied.

The man that invented writin' must 'a' been tongue-tied or had sore throat some time when he wanted to talk awful bad.

And now that I was actually in the presence of a man who was obviously a very businesslike and matter-of-fact sort of person, I felt awkward and tongue-tied.

Nino seemed tongue-tied still, but he made an effort.

Fenwick glared at himapparently tongue-tied.

Meanwhile the impression upon her was that he had taken the news of his success with admirable self-restraint, that he was growing and shaping as a human being, no less than as an artist, that his manner to her father was excellent, neither tongue-tied nor effusive, and his few words of thanks manly and sincere.

The good humor in his face reassured me; but still I stood in tongue-tied wonder, staring at him.

72 examples of  tongue-tie  in sentences