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Tongueless   Listen
adjective
Tongueless  adj.  
1.
Having no tongue.
2.
Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?"
3.
Unnamed; not spoken of. (Obs.) "One good deed dying tongueless."





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"Tongueless" Quotes from Famous Books



... tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. Winter's Tale, ...
— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various
... to a window, and now saw a blur of light through the fog, showing that the steamer had safely passed us; but, though she called joyously, she was not in time to stay the Commodore, who had already dashed into the cockpit beating the tongueless bell with her curling-irons. ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... line. Only now and then did he take advantage of a portage trail. Clinging to the river, his journey was lengthened by some sixty miles. Now that the hour for which Conniston had prepared him was so close at hand, he felt the need of this mighty, tongueless friend that had played such an intimate part in his life. It gave to him both courage and confidence, and in its company he could think more clearly. Nights he camped on its golden-yellow bars with the ...
— The River's End • James Oliver Curwood
... dust who noon by noon Meted a thousand grains of millet out, Ate it with famished patience, seed by seed, And so starved on; there one who bruised his pulse With bitter leaves lest palate should be pleased; And next, a miserable saint self-maimed, Eyeless and tongueless, sexless, crippled, deaf; The body by the mind being thus stripped For glory of much suffering, and the bliss Which they shall win—say holy books—whose woe Shames gods that send us woe, and makes men gods Stronger to suffer than ...
— The Light of Asia • Sir Edwin Arnold
... with passion of sound suppressed, And the twilight quivers and yearns to the sunward, wrung With love as with pain; and the wide wood's motionless breast Is thrilled with a dumb desire that would fain find tongue And palpitates, tongueless as she whom a man-snake stung, Whose heart now heaves in the nightingale, never at rest Nor satiated ever with song till her last ...
— Astrophel and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne, Vol. VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne


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