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1  Catherine wisely put in her tongue.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  I endeavoured to stop her thoughtless tongue.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  From their tongues they did dismiss it; and Catherine, probably, from her thoughts.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her saucy tongue.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appeared that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked-up gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I