blacktongue

How to use blacktongue in a sentence

• And he's got a black tongue, just like a pure breed Alderney cow.

  Jack, the Young Ranchman | George Bird Grinnell

• But the kennels of the man-hunting dogs were ravaged by the black tongue, soon after the ending of the Civil War.

  Heart of the Blue Ridge | Waldron Baily

• The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.

  Ulysses | James Joyce

• We had a parrot, and I could take him and hug him, and touch his black tongue, and do anything I wanted to him.

  Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 | Various

• Then the cattle and game began to die of thirst, and of some awful disease called “black tongue.”

  All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr