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While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Macbeth 2004
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Alice said in a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who were just beginning again, she whispered, ‘If you don’t hold your tongues,
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Although the university also offers Xhosa, Sotho and other African tongues,
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Had I ten thousand million mouths and ten thousand million tongues,
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"All the same, perhaps you would suggest to this God of yours, that the next time we entertain such " guests, if he uses your instrument to speak in tongues,
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Their thirty-pound buttered eggs, their pies of carps 'tongues,
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Till clerks and knights be courteous with their tongues,
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QUOTATION: My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
Quotations 1919
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Of Russian proper, besides, he heard little; there was a Babel of many tongues,
The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910
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