The hounds gave tongue as they scented the fox nearby.

He never goes by my Kennel but the Dogs give tongue;

About two o’clock in the morning the moon came out; from somewhere in the distance a coyote gave tongue, and The Worst Bad Man shivered a little.

The strange, implacable heart-broken music of hounds giving tongue as they break from cover; […]

As the boat drew near the guillemots gave tongue. The sound came against the wind fierce and complaining, antagonistic like the voice of loneliness crying out against them and telling them to be gone—be gone—be gone!

There was a hoarse, rusty little bell on the gate that gave querulous tongue as she pushed it open.

From the belfry of the little church a bell suddenly gave tongue upon a frantic, hurried note that spoke unmistakably of alarm.

[…] guns gave tongue and breech-blocks swung
And palms rammed home the shell.

His sympathetic school-fellows grasped the full humour of the situation as one man, and gave tongue once more in chorus.

The Momebys had lost their infant child […]; they were looking for it in wild, undisciplined fashion, giving tongue the whole time, which accounted for the outcry which swept through house and garden whenever they returned to try the home coverts anew.

Here were the practice rooms where right round the clock one heard pianos playing scales and snatches of classical music, heard sopranos giving tongue, heard the gruff commentary of tubas practising.

She felt unable to give tongue to her feelings.

Mrs. Thacker had a fretful, irritable temper, and the presence of Crazy Jane furnished her with an occasion for giving tongue to her annoyance […]

God, if she only knew what manner of sugarplums danced in my head when she gave tongue to such delicious conceits.

Give tongue

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