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Examples
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She's temperate, sober, full of good advice, and has many good qualities, but she has a scolding tongue,
Satyricon 2007
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On a sudden yell'd in huddling agitation every tongue,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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His devotion to Baburin had also remained undiminished; he worshipped him as much as ever, and even at the last, wrapped about by the chill and dark of the end, he had faltered with halting tongue,
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On a sudden yell'd in huddling agitation every tongue,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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‘Oh! the pride of that church,’ said Peter, addressing his wife in their own tongue,
Lavengro 2004
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He said there were 5000 Zanzibaris in South African and most of them, even the children, could still speak their mother tongue,
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Where is that worthless wretch, of readiest tongue,
Sophocles : Philoctetes Sophocles 2004
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As I had not yet recovered my reason, he, before I could answer, observed a body lying on the ground, at which sight his colour changed, and he pronounced, with a faltering tongue,
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For a second or two dusky forms appeared among the trees, and the Mazitu were asked, in their own tongue,
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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I speak English to soften my harsher native tongue,
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