'
Hold your tongue, sir,' cried Mr Willet, suddenly rousing himself, and turning round.
'
Hold your tongue, Beadle,' said the second old gentleman, when Mr.
"There are two ways of making you
hold your tongue," he said.
"But why did you
hold your tongue afterward?" I asked.
"
Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird!" cried Polly, tumbling off the chair with a bounce, and running to peck the
"For goodness sake,
hold your tongue," she interrupted, tears of annoyance in her eyes.
First top off, then half-done, then--' 'Will you
hold your tongue,' cried the cat, 'one word more, and I will eat you too.' 'All-gone' was already on the poor mouse's lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.
Since it has been borne in upon you by heaven to recognise me, hold your tongue, and do not say a word about it any one else in the house, for if you do I tell you--and it shall surely be--that if heaven grants me to take the lives of these suitors, I will not spare you, though you are my own nurse, when I am killing the other women."
And Ulysses answered, "Nurse, you ought not to speak in that way; I am well able to form my own opinion about one and all of them; hold your tongue and leave everything to heaven."
"Speak with less impertinence, master thief of extra measure," replied the commissary, "if you don't want me to make you
hold your tongue in spite of your teeth."
This stick helps to
hold your tongue down so that the doctor or nurse can check for swelling, redness, or other signs of infection in your mouth and throat.
Woman dear,
hold your tongue. Public vengeance prolongs grief.