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Example sentences for "tongueless"

Lexicographically close words:
tonging; tongs; tongue; tongued; tongueing; tongues; tonguey; tonguing; tonic; tonicity
  1. That the bell, being dangerous to good Christians, should be banished from the Spanish Kingdom to the Indies, and forever should remain tongueless and exiled over seas.

  2. That in the mirk and tongueless night Wanton I may, and thou not write?

  3. When Julia chid I stood as mute the while As is the fish or tongueless crocodile.

  4. Mine eyes must woo you, though I sigh the while: True love is tongueless as a crocodile.

  5. Dumb are ye all, bowed eyes and tongueless mouths, Unprofitable; if this were wind that speaks, As much its breath might move you.

  6. When the tongueless bell was struck three times the crowd gathered around the image bearers, and all started toward what the white men believed was the temple, chanting in perfect harmony with the music.

  7. They trooped along without any attempt at marching in regular order: but on arriving in front of the men they halted suddenly in response to sharp strokes on a gong or tongueless bell which one of them held high in the air.

  8. Certain of having found the right trail, he instantly went to the window below which the strollers lay, thrust his head into the room from the outside, and waked the wife of the tongueless swearer.

  9. For I spoke no word, but dumb as a tongueless man, I allowed myself to be knocked backward into the box.

  10. But those last lines: And to the antique order of the dead I take the tongueless vows.

  11. She saw him come hopping from rock to rock, his wagging finger, shapeless face, tongueless voice.

  12. And his eye was the true soldier's eye, comprehending by signs, investing with life what was tongueless else.

  13. Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.

  14. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.

  15. His brain was hot with a fever of restiveness and beyond his cell-like room he saw the world from which he was barred: the world which the tongueless voice in his heart kept heralding to him as his own world to conquer.

  16. The great tongueless bell is another striking accessory to the temple services.

  17. No nightingale her saddest tongueless dreams, Hath sobbed to beauty on a hidden thorn, To swoon in over-music at the morn.

  18. My tongueless attendant, Oriole, could not have told you?


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