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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

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If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.

One of Yung Pak's favourite toys was a wooden jumping-jack with a pasteboard tongue.

He was given no reply save a muttered curse, a command to hold his tongue, and an angry tug at his tied arms.

He was a pretty bright sort, that same Goodell, quick-witted, nimble of tongue above the average Englishman.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.

A curious incident: during the night a Fleet-sweeper tied up alongside, full of wounded, chiefly Australians.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985