Fondare 114 Risultati per: Tongue

• As soon as these were red-hot, he commanded that their spokesman should have his tongue cut out, his head scalped and his extremities cut off, while the other brothers and his mother looked on. (2 Maccabees 7, 4)

• Replying in his ancestral tongue, he said, 'No!' So he too was put to the torture in his turn. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)

• After him, they tortured the third, who on being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)

• Indeed she encouraged each of them in their ancestral tongue; filled with noble conviction, she reinforced her womanly argument with manly courage, saying to them, (2 Maccabees 7, 21)

• Bending over him, she fooled the cruel tyrant with these words, uttered in their ancestral tongue, 'My son, have pity on me; I carried you nine months in my womb and suckled you three years, fed you and reared you to the age you are now, and provided for you. (2 Maccabees 7, 27)

• Then, chanting the battle cry and hymns at the top of his voice in his ancestral tongue, by a surprise attack he routed Gorgias' troops. (2 Maccabees 12, 37)

• With shouting and confusion all around, they blessed the sovereign Master in their ancestral tongue. (2 Maccabees 15, 29)

• Then, cutting out godless Nicanor's tongue, he gave orders for it to be fed piecemeal to the birds, and for the salary of his folly to be hung up in front of the Temple. (2 Maccabees 15, 33)

• a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, (Proverbs 6, 17)

• The tongue of the upright is purest silver, the heart of the wicked is of trumpery value. (Proverbs 10, 20)

• The mouth of the upright utters wisdom, the tongue that deceives will be cut off. (Proverbs 10, 31)

• Whoever looks down on a neighbour lacks good sense; the intelligent keeps a check on the tongue. (Proverbs 11, 12)