'Hold your tongue, you scoundrel!' replied Hank, as he kept on pommeling his enemy, 'hold your tongue, I tell you!

I speak the Indian tongues, and there's few alive that ken the tribes like me.

Diggory was the first to find his tongue.

All the other dogs waked and gave tongue, running in and out among the huddled rows of people gathered on the Ramparts.

Our conversation was interrupted in a little while by the arrival of the wagon which I had ordered out; I loaded the hind-quarters of the youngest buffaloes on it, and then cut out the tongues and tender loins, and presented them to the officers, after which I rode towards the fort with them, while the wagon returned to camp.

Do you call that a proper occupation for the best blood in Breadalbane?" It was a silly speech, and I could have bitten my tongue out when I had uttered it.

Try it moderately, and it may loosen your tongue.

You knowthe water front, where you can hear more tongues than at Port Said, see stranger sights, and meet adventure with the joyous certainty of mediaeval times.

I come of a good family, and as a child I was sent to school in Calcutta and learned your English tongue.

But some would ask her why she still spoke the little language, though it was sweet to their ears; and others when they heard it hastened to call from the houses and the fields some among them who knew the other tongue but a little, and who came and crowded round the little Pilgrim, and asked her many questions both about the things she had been seeing and about the old time.

" "Tut, tut," said Robin, "speak not so, Friar; the loser hath ever the right to use his tongue as he doth list.

Mr. Bowen thought it would be better if we were married, just to stop their tongues, but I couldn't marry him.

It is, indeed, only by tying the tongue that tyranny can hope to live.

I could not understand their tongue, but I fancy that they wagered among themselves on the issue, if, indeed, that was in doubt, or, at any rate, on the time before I should fall.

Here he winked one eye slyly and stuck his tongue into his cheek.

She was putting her tongue out, and making faces at him from behind an apple-tree.

Now, begin to practise keeping a civil tongue behind your teeth!"

"I'll bet yer 't was Aunt Nancy; she's got a sharp tongue, but a lot of silk pieces an' a tender spot in her heart fer yew, Abe.

I, who of all young women was the most simple-minded, and ordinarily with barely power to loose my tongue, when among my companions, concerning the most trivial and ordinary affairs, now, because of this my affection, mastered so speedily all his modes of speech that, in a brief space, my aptness at feigning and inventing surpassed that of any poet!

You sit with committees and stroke your profound chin, or you spend your talent in the market, or run to and fro and wag your tongue in persuasion.

"He sits around with aspect meek, Until the bug hath neared, Then shoots he forth his little tongue Like lightning double-geared.

Hill passed his tongue over his dry lips before he was able to speak.

So that few had time, now, to talk of Rudolph Musgrave and Clarice Pendomer; for it was not in Lichfieldian human nature to discuss a mere domestic imbroglio when here, also in the Musgrave family, was a picturesque and gory assassination to lay tongue to.

When that thief Hangs upon Lazarus' bosom, he'll be bidding A ducat for each drop of milk he's cost me, To cool his tongue.

After a significant pause he caught the 'Bishop's' eye, and, holding his pipe as it might be a pistol, put it to his head, and clicked his tongue.