swallow one's words

In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.