"Lingua" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... African traveller, has been re-seducing (me) into the Lingua Amazighana, which I had forsworn. I am not sure that something will not come of it—to me at least. I have already built a castle in the air, that sometime hereafter I shall become 'Professor ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... Canavese. Soup alla Canavese Naselli con piselli. Whiting with peas. Coscia di manzo al forno. Braized ribs of beef. Lingua alla Visconti. Tongue with grapes. Anitra selvatica. Wild duck. Zabajone ghiacciato. Iced syllabub. Crostatini alla capucina. Savoury ...
— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters
... tenebrae in sylva, ubi haec captanda: neque eon, quo pervenire volumus semitae tritae: neque non in tramitibus quaedam objecta, quae euntem retinere possent."—VARRO. De Lingua Latina, Lib. iv, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... aristocracy the favourite weapons were the duelling pistol and the "florette," or rapier. The "pelado," or lower orders, preferred the "lingua de vaca," which means literally "cow's tongue," a nasty-looking knife ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917 • Various
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