tongue

• Thanks D.W. (the tongue was a nice bonus!) in 'today's winner'. —  Knowledge is Power
• Truly the tongue is all tongue, and has no ears to take an admonition or instruction. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• "You look like one of the Afridis, but your tongue is English I am Lieutenant Bullen," he said; and a burst of cheering rose from the men, who belonged to his own regiment Why, we all thought you were killed, in that fight in the torrent No; I was hit, and my leg so disabled that I was washed down by the torrent; and the men were, I suppose, too much occupied in keeping the Afridis at bay to notice me. —  Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
• [1] God help us, then, for ourselves, in our home, in the nation, and, above all, among the children, to secure that in the coming reign, and through the coming century, there may be a rainbow round about the throne 1] Rev. E. Lyttelton, "Training of the Young in Laws of Sex," pp. 16, 17, 109 IV THE LAW OF KINDNESS In her tongue is the law of kindness."--_Prov. —  The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral
• I had no reason to question these qualifications, though his tongue was apt to stir too loudly for prudence, and too fast for truth; while over the manner of his release (he had been for months a prisoner of war), there hung a mystery never cleared up satisfactorily. —  Border and Bastille

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