They are eager to fly from my tongue like birds.

What does she expect to get from her sharp tongue?

Then he removed a piece of tobacco from his tongue and looked at it.

The words just came from my tongue, and I thought a god must have spoken through me.

But somehow, these were not the words either of them expected to come from her tongue.

Such were the questions that seemed ready to break from her tongue.

And the words, though he'd never thought he'd hear them from his own tongue, were true.

Each word fell from his tongue with the weight of a hammer blow.

The cascade from her tongue never slowed, yet she seemed to be talking at least half to herself.

It was only habit to hold back names from his tongue.