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Example sentences for "foreign tongue"

  • One of the mistakes made in even our church work has been the maintaining of distinctive church services in a foreign tongue.

  • One of the most earnest of missionary workers in New York, an American citizen born in Italy, protested vigorously to the writer on the policy of maintaining church services in New York in a foreign tongue.

  • Hundreds of women like this one sit in homes in New York in which they have no part, barred out by the fact that they speak a foreign tongue.

  • And then he muttered some words in a foreign tongue, which neither Timothy nor his father could comprehend.

  • Amid the exhaustive selection of these phenomena we are chiefly concerned with talking in a foreign tongue, the so-called glossolalia.

  • She occupied herself much with the enchanting of spirits, and for this purpose she wrote oracular sayings in a foreign tongue, on slips of paper which she concealed in all sorts of queer places.

  • She is told she has been talking during the sleep, whereupon she becomes much annoyed, and this increases when she learns she has spoken in a foreign tongue.

  • There is a vast difference between understanding and speaking a foreign tongue; you will, therefore, please to assist me still.

  • I call them Iroquois, because to me every native, who speaks a foreign tongue, is accounted an enemy, though he may pretend to serve the king!

  • The dimensions of the Metropolitan Opera House forbade the intimacy which operas founded on the German Singspiel demand for appreciation, and spoken dialogue, especially in a foreign tongue, was painfully destructive of artistic illusion.

  • It is an injustice to our own people if we teach them a foreign tongue instead of the language of this country," stated a Lutheran pastor to the writer.

  • The writer found still more numerous cases where a foreign tongue was a subject of study in the elementary public school, though English was the teaching language.

  • Both a foreign tongue as the teaching language and a foreign tongue as a subject of study in the elementary public schools are now done away with under the pressure of public sentiment against these practices.

  • In a number of states the use of a foreign tongue as a teaching medium and even as a subject of study in the common schools has been prohibited.

  • It ceased, and another voice, lower but full of a suppressed passion, took up the tale, though in a foreign tongue.

  • She gave an order, it seemed, in a foreign tongue, and the thing was managed.

  • Madame Beattie spoke once or twice, a brief mandate in a foreign tongue, and that, Jeff noted, was effective.

  • Then she turned to her son and spoke to him, but in a foreign tongue.

  • The girl, seeing that they talked in a foreign tongue, understood that they were talking about her, and determined to watch and see.

  • They must be sounds of the same order as we utter in whispering, or such sounds as we are apt to use when learning to speak a foreign tongue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    foreign assistance; foreign body; foreign capital; foreign commerce; foreign debt; foreign grain; foreign influences; foreign interference; foreign intervention; foreign land; foreign languages; foreign markets; foreign merchants; foreign minister; foreign mission; foreign nation; foreign politics; foreign ports; foreign power; foreign princes; foreign stamps; foreign states; foreign trade; foreign troops; foreign wars; foreign yoke