Occasionally curly tongues of flame rose from under the roofs of the houses.
Tongues of flame here and there broke through that cloud.
In 1804 the Bible, or some part of it, had been printed in about fifty-five different tongues.
He early developed a gift for languages, becoming familiar not only with Latin and Greek but also with Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Turkish and other Eastern tongues.
So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.