tongue
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"TONGUE LASHING" China's membership in the WTO was supposed to make things easier on foreign investors, who used to be treated like honored guests and wooed with tax breaks and free land.
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 25, 2010
You have been in the milder caverns of Trophonius; or as in some den, where that fiercest and savagest of all wild creatures, the TONGUE, that unruly member, has strangely lain tied up and captive.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
If I want a Dram of Grace to Tame my Tongue, The time will come when I shall want a drop of Water to Cool my TONGUE.
From A Little Catechism With little verses and little sayings for little children by Mason, John
TONGUE, relation of, to the beak in pigeons.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
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