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Example sentences for "tongued"

Lexicographically close words:
tonge; tonges; tonging; tongs; tongue; tongueing; tongueless; tongues; tonguey; tonguing
  1. The liver, like a double-tongued The rocky bones, like a goose- mattock.

  2. But the physicians said that by the urine they could discern no manifest sign of the bustard's pace, nor how to eat double-tongued mattocks with mustard, unless the lords and gentlemen of the court should be pleased to give by B.

  3. His temper would get the better of his discretion; and the cynical debater would be lost in the hot-tongued partisan.

  4. He met the little man's sneers with a quelling silence, looking down on his asp-tongued antagonist with such a contempt flashing from his blue-gray eyes as hurt his adversary more than words.

  5. Act for Owd Bob, his dropping, his driving, his penning, aroused the loud-tongued admiration of crowd and competitors alike.

  6. In the army I found that hard drinkers and fast livers and profane-tongued men often proved to be the kindest-hearted, squarest friends one could ever have," one mother reports.

  7. The brazen-tongued mill clock clanged the hour of two, when shuffling uncertain footsteps sounded on the hollow stairs.

  8. In Mencius we hear of "this shrike-tongued barbarian of the south (Nan Man), whose doctrines are not those of the ancient kings.

  9. Here broke in the shrill-tongued fifes: We shouldered arms, We marched--we marched away.

  10. A sharp-tongued old woman in a house among the fruit-trees behind Saharunpore honoured him as the woman honoured the prophet, but his chamber was by no means upon the wall.

  11. Ten steps would have taken Hurree into the creaking gloom utterly beyond their reach--to the shelter and food of the nearest village, where glib-tongued doctors were scarce.

  12. Good Sir Marmaduke in his sympathy had utterly forgotten both Berenger's French blood, and that he was the son of the very smooth-tongued interloper who had robbed his life of its first bloom.

  13. There's not a woman of them all that an honest, plain Englishman has a chance with, when a smooth-tongued Frenchman comes round her!

  14. How shall we keep ourselves from the smooth-tongued villain's throat?

  15. What would Goneril say, the glib-tongued Ann, and all the rest?

  16. She was less querulous with those around her, less sharp-tongued about her neighbors.

  17. It is a good sign that two-tongued congregations are growing in favor.

  18. A church whose constituency is many-tongued should avoid becoming one-tongued.

  19. It would not do to let its existence be even suspected by the keen eyes of the freely-censorious Presbyterian dames, or the sharp-witted, agile-tongued Methodist ladies.

  20. Joan had found a liking gradually growing up in her for the quick-moving, curt-tongued doctor.

  21. Virgil's description of hundred tongued Rumor appeared by no means so poetical an exaggeration to our ancestors as it does to us.

  22. There was a chorus of thick-tongued protestations of equal valor, and the crowd reeled out after Meshech.

  23. I remember that Varney is a smooth-tongued varlet.

  24. Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence.

  25. He is as long-tongued as Granny: Granny was an idiot who could lick her own eye.

  26. There must, however, be a joint at the underground part where it is to be tongued and pegged, and at least one sound bud in each exposed part, from which a shoot may be developed to form the top of the young plant.

  27. And now men were beginning to say that without the tireless blows of the keen-witted, sharp-tongued young corporation lawyer, the junto might still have reasserted itself.

  28. In passing he stumbled heavily against Kent; there was a thick-tongued oath, and Loring struck out smartly with his walking-stick.

  29. It's a pretty condition of things when we can't go on with our businesses without being interfered with by mobs of ignorant fools incited by loud-tongued agitators.

  30. In one court two unkempt vile-tongued women of the town wrangled and abused each other to the amusement of the neighborhood, where the working poor were huddled together with those who live by shame.


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