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Example sentences for "strange tongue"

  • He motioned Guy and Melton behind the door, and then, pulling it partly open, uttered a few words in a strange tongue.

  • At sight of the English flag which the Arab now produced, the Emir's eyes sparkled, his face lit up with fiendish joy, and he began to talk wildly in a strange tongue.

  • As they stepped from the shadows upon the open roadway, an Arab stalked from a doorway opposite, and without troubling himself to come nearer addressed Canaris in a strange tongue.

  • But our time has come; be ready now to assist.

  • The floor was spread with rugs and the skins of various animals, and on the heavily curtained walls hung a dazzling array of every description, bronze and copper shields, and strips of oddly-woven tapestry.

  • Fifty yards down the street the tower of the Emir's palace was visible, outlined faintly against the pale-gray sky.

  • The door opened, a man came out with a horde of children cowering at his heels, a volley of frightened words pouring from his mouth in a strange tongue.

  • Beside the straining horses was a great, burly man with a red beard, cracking his long whip, and calling to the horses in a strange tongue.

  • What men ere there in this country who would sing in a strange tongue?

  • I have heard the voices of men all singing together in a strange tongue.

  • The fishers of Viana were aroused that night by rough voices speaking in a strange tongue, and ere morning Sir Nigel and his men had ferried the river and were safe upon the land of Spain.


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