tongue-lash

Sata, who was known as King Cobra because of his sharp tongue, was thought to have been seriously ill for some time.

“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.