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Euskadi likewise — Basque is an indo-european rather than a latin tongue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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Next went the secret of how to speak the dolphin tongue.
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Labium: the lower lip: a compound structure which forms the floor of the mouth in mandibulate insects, behind the first maxilla and opposed to the labium; formed by a fusion in embryonic life of separate right and left maxilla-like halves: in some of its developments referred to as the tongue.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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At eight o'clock in the morning the curtains and blinds were half opened in the apartments of the Empress Marie Louise, and the papers were handed her; after reading which, chocolate or coffee was served, with a kind of pastry called tongue.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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At eight o'clock in the morning the curtains and blinds were half opened in the apartments of the Empress Marie Louise, and the papers were handed her; after reading which, chocolate or coffee was served, with a kind of pastry called tongue.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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-- When not attending on my good merchant, I consort with such of our company as are Italians, for 'tis to Italy I wend, and I am ill seen in Italian tongue.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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At eight o'clock in the morning the curtains and blinds were half opened in the apartments of the Empress Marie Louise, and the papers were handed her; after reading which, chocolate or coffee was served, with a kind of pastry called tongue.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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The reason they are named Goji Berries may be because the wolfberries are dubbed Gouqui in the Mandarin Chinese tongue.
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When Tacitus surveyed the primitive simplicity of the Germans, he discovered some permanent maxims, or customs, of public and private life, which were preserved by faithful tradition till the introduction of the art of writing, and of the Latin tongue.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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