Tongue

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,

cold tongue with mustard

However you eat them, tongue and chicken and new bread are very good things, and no one minds being sprinkled a little with soda-water on a really fine hot day.

He was speaking in his native tongue.

[…] that great Towre, which is so much renownd For tongues confusion in holie writ,

When I pointed to any thing, she told me the Name of it in her own Tongue, so that in a few Days I was able to call for whatever I had a mind to.

To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.

“You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. […]”

If you do not speak English I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.

Many of them come from distant places and although they speak your tongue they are ignorant of your customs.

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty, Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.

[...] one of [the prisoners], whom by his tongue I knew to be a Scotchman, lamented most piteously [...]

Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded, How ſhuld a fals lying tung then be rewarded?

[...] his wicked way of Living, his prophane Tongue, and his Contempt of Religion, had made him not very well receiv’d [...]

"Well," said he, at last, "your tongue is bold; but I am no unfriend to plainness [...]"

I’m afraid I’ve inherited my uncle’s tongue and my mother’s want of tact.

Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul.

[...] Frank Marcus’ Sister George, technically a quite ordinary comedy in the old style [...] was remarkable [...] for the frank tongue of its Lesbians [...]

I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.

[…] it was obvious to his listeners that Pittypat, in his mind, was still a plump and charming miss of sixteen who must be sheltered against evil tongues.

2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 4, p. 592, … the drunk, who had been a permanent fixture in that bar, changed location and thereafter moved from bar to bar, saying to inquisitive tongues, Too long a stay in one seat tires the buttocks.

Parrots imitating Human Tongue

[...] fellows, soldiers, friends, Better consider what you have to do Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion.

Much Tongue, and much Judgment seldom go together, for Talking and Thinking are Two Quite Differing Faculties,

“[...] this Mr. Grandcourt has wonderful little tongue. Everything must be done dummy-like without his ordering.” “Then he’s the more whip, I doubt,” said Mrs. Girdle. “She’s got tongue enough, I warrant her [...]”

She was born noble; let that title find her A private grave, but neither tongue nor honour!

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.

[...] her low-heeled shoes had flat fringed tongues to them—the kind of shoes you expected to see on a golf-course, or a Scottish highland, somewhere expensively hearty like that.

the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.

Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:

[...] the bell clanged so loud that he could hear the iron tongue clapping against the metal sides each time it swung to and fro [...]

Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.

Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

[T]he cattle tongued at the damp grass, licking rather than grazing. […]

Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me.

I was tonguing her ear and serenading her in a passionate whisper, mimicking Elvis, mimicking Joey.

I was tonguing her sweet spot. "Shit, that's nice." Her breaths got faster as we locked into a delicious rhythm that was hitting my clit just right.

a soil horizon that tongues into clay

to tongue boards together

’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not;

How might she tongue me!