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Example sentences for "forked tongue"

  • He speaks with a forked tongue," said the Cree, pointing to the man in the doorway, and dividing his fingers, to show that thoughts went one way and words another.

  • I hear the voice of the man at the gate--the man who spoke against the white boy with a forked tongue; the man who drove him out into the frosty night, that it might kill him.

  • It is speaking with a forked tongue: words one way, thoughts another; telling lies to God.

  • He never in youth had a forked tongue, or a faint heart, and why should he bear them now?

  • And that my brother may not think that I have a forked tongue, but speak the words of truth, I will show him the little balls.

  • Let the white man, whose heart is the heart of a fawn, and whose ways are the ways of the serpent, let him speak with a forked tongue.

  • He has neither a forked tongue nor a faint heart.

  • And it was also told, that with the rising of the sun on the next morning, he would convince the Little Black Bear, that he had not a forked tongue, nor spoke with the lips of a mocking-bird.

  • Then said his friend, 'Tis well; Nor hast thou a forked tongue: My son is pledged to thee, And to thy little daughter.

  • But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue.

  • Defn: Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

  • Defn: Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.

  • Little Eyes has a forked tongue," repeated the Lizard, with emphasis.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    doing nothing; eyes opened; farm products; fell ance; forked branch; forked tail; forked tongue; great source; greater amount; hollow tone; judges appointed for eight; little ship; making machine; may also; milk cheese; mouthed bottle; other subjects; peine forte; perfect state; physical violence; scientific work; several different; tailed godwit; who took