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Example sentences for "still tongue"

  • Or would you reckon that we'd better keep a still tongue in our heads till she do come?

  • You keep a still tongue, an' I shall understand!

  • He 'kept a still tongue'--and turned back from the garden into the house.

  • Keep a still tongue; for if ye raise your voice someone I know will find means to quiet ye.

  • A still tongue is the safest in these times.

  • I thought I could enlighten her, perhaps, but kept a still tongue.

  • A still tongue, a clear head and a sharp blade are the tools of Fortune.

  • I suppose I should, but yet from purely selfish motives I am almost prompted to 'keep a still tongue in my 'ead.

  • But keep a still tongue in yer 'ead an' when ye 'ear shootin' git below an' stay there.

  • And he told you to keep a still tongue in your head and leave it to me.

  • Keep a still tongue in your head, and have the bride there to the minute.

  • You asked for obedience and a still tongue, Baron.

  • The Arab bowed, but he kept a still tongue.

  • Those are the qualities I seek, but I demand obedience, too, and a still tongue, yes?

  • I hope, however, Holford, that you have kept your promise and kept a still tongue.

  • Antonio, when I met him in Rome, was anxious that, in exchange for information concerning her, I should consent to keep a still tongue as to what had occurred in Sussex Place.

  • If you will tell me the truth, I will keep a still tongue.

  • If I thought you could keep a still tongue, the two of us might manage a pretty big deal.

  • You'd best keep a still tongue in your head and shut your eyes, as far as I'm concerned.

  • And keep a still tongue or it will be the worse for you.

  • So you had better go back to your room and keep a still tongue.

  • I should keep a still tongue, if I were you.

  • Brush the powder from your hair and put on these clothes, and I 'll warrant you 'll be safe enough, as long as you keep a still tongue and do as I bid you.

  • He wrote back, however, scarcely less emphatically, though he recommended prudence and a still tongue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    moral education; particular cases; powerful influence; slave insurrection; step farther; still better; still called; still continued; still existing; still found; still greater; still higher; still holds; still less; still loved; still others; still possible; still remain; still remember; still retains; still smaller; still staring; still tongue; still very; still young; this office