Do we say tongue or tung

tongue 7165 occurrences

To her I talked Tahitian, as with all the family, in an effort to perfect myself in that tongue.

He was a Tahitian of middle age, with a beaming face, and happy that I spoke his tongue.

" Before our supper of fish and fei, Teta, who was a deacon in the Protestant church, but of superior knowledge of his own tongue and legends, asked a blessing of God, and afterward recited for me the Tahitian chant of creation, the source of which was in the very beginnings of his race, perhaps even previous to the migration from Malaysia.

Only Choti's friendship for them, his bonhomie, and many merry jokes in their tongue could keep them still for his purposes.

" Herman looked up from his game, though in the midst of warm utterance in his native tongue at the immediate perverse fall of the cards.

in the Gothic tongue, struck his only too well-accustomed ears.

Three wild, barefooted Gauls of Verronax's clan shook their heads at all his attempts to send them home, and went running along after him with the same fidelity as poor Celer, whom he had left tied up at the villa as his parting gift to little Victorinus, but who had broken loose, and came bounding to his master, caressing him with nose and tongue at their first halt.

So it ran on, to the great scandal of Lucius, who longed for better knowledge of the Gothic tongue to convince the old man of the folly of his heathen dreams.

And Edric feared to meet a stroke, Before they knew the tongue he spoke.

The sun grew hotter and hotter, Bertram's wound bled, though not profusely, the smart grew upon him, his tongue was parched with thirst, and though he kept resolutely on, his breath came panting, his head grew dizzy, his eyes dim, his feet faltered, and at last, just as he attained a wider and more trodden way, he dropped insensible by the side of the path, his dry lips trying to utter the cry, "Lord, have mercy on me!" II.

I see something of her face, and thou hast an English tongue.

it has made my tongue more like old boot leather than ever.

" "We would never have done it if he would have kept a civil tongue.

" "Civility's hard to a tongue dried up," returned Sigbert.

Both looked startled and shocked at the entrance of the fair- haired damsel, and the Sheik crouched in a corner, with a savage glare in his eye like a freshly caught wild beast, though the Emir sat cross-legged on the couch eating, and talking in the LINGUA FRANCA, which was almost a native tongue, to the son and daughter of the Crusader.

In tough Welsh Parsly, which, in our vulgar Tongue, is strong Hempen Halters; my poor Master cozen'd, and I a looker on!

He's at's Book; peace, Coxcomb, that such an unlearned tongue as thine should ask for him!

Bravely, my Boy, and bless thy tongue.

You may tie his tongue up, as you would do your purse-strings.

you shall know, my heart speaks in my tongue.

In tough Welsh parsly, which in our vulgar Tongue Is strong hempen halters; My poore Master coo'znd, And I a looker on!

And. Is at's book, peace Coxcomb, That such an unlearn'd tongue as thine should ask for him!

Bravely my boy, and blesse thy tongue.

The Duke smiled upon me, like a man that has a complete retort on his tongue but who is content for the present to reserve it.

" Nino could not hold his tongue any longer.

tung 89 occurrences

Since then, the Hsiung-nu empire had destroyed the federation of the Yüeh-chih tribes (some of which seem to have been of Indo-European language stock) and incorporated their people into their own federation; they had conquered also the less well organized eastern pastoral tribes, the Tung-hu and thus had become a formidable power.

The great Confucianist philosopher Tung Chung-shu (179-104 B.C.), a firm supporter of the ideology of the new gentry class, declared that the classic Confucianist writings, and especially the book Ch'un-ch'iu, "Annals of Spring and Autumn", attributed to Confucius himself, were essentially books of legal decisions.

The Ming government therefore, had organized an overseas flotilla of grain ships which brought grain from Central China directly to the front in Liao-tung and Manchuria.

Of the many painters of the Ming epoch, all held in high esteem in China, mention must be made especially of Ch'in Ying (c. 1525), T'ang Yin (1470-1523), and Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555-1636).

T'ang Yin was the painter of elegant women; Tung became famous especially as a calligraphist and a theoretician of the art of painting; a textbook of the art was written by him.

Meanwhile the gentry had concluded among themselves a defensive alliance that was a sort of party; this party was called the Tung-lin Academy.

A leading part in the extermination of the reformers was played by troops from Kansu under the command of a Mohammedan, Tung Fu-hsiang.

And as he sipped his grenadine syrup and soda water, he admired his three-inch thumbnail, the token of his rise from the estate of a half-naked coolie in Quan-tung to equality with these Taipans, the whites of Tahiti.

" Not long after, the American Presbyterian Mission at Tung chow, Shantung Province, North China, was broken up, for fear of an intended massacre.

Tung-siu Chiang Hu (W) & Tsu-wang Hu (C); 15Jul70; R488329.

HU, TUNG-SIU CHIANG.

Edited & translated by Hsiao-tung Fei & Francis L. K. Hsu.

HSIAO-TUNG FEI.

SEE FEI, HSIAO-TUNG.

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By Mao Tse-tung, translated by Frederick V. Field.

SEE FEI, HSIAO-TUNG.

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SEE LEMAN, JAN. FEI, HSIAO-TUNG.

Earthbound China: a study of rural economy in Yunnan, by Hsiao-tung Fei & Chih-I Chang.

© 15Oct45; A192077. Hsiao-tung Fei (A); 22Jan73; R544674. FEIERABEND, ROSALIND.

SEE FEI, HSIAO-TUNG.

By Mao Tse-tung, translated by Frederick V. Field.

Well, in the end, the prejudices melted and the party started, chaperoned by the I.G. Five in all there were, a certain Pin Lao Yeh, an ex-Prefect, his son and three students from the Tung Wen Kwan or College of Languages.

Of course they were taken direct to the Inspectorate for sorting, and while headquarters were still in the Kau Lan Hu Tung the messenger was more than once thrown on his way down to the Legationsperhaps he met one of those gong-beating processions which would be enough to frighten a hobby-horseand his mails recklessly distributed by the terrified animal.

Do we say   tongue   or  tung