tongue-work

Baldassare's own were black as old channel-posts in the Lagoon, but in tongue-work he gave as sharp as he got.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Why, that would be merely talking; tongue-work; keeping on and on after one usually, if merciful to a friend, lets him off.

Old Junk 1915

The mere tongue-work or hand-*work, of virtue slackens and becomes deteriorated, when not sustained by profound thought and feeling.

A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already. '

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already. '

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

-- why, five minutes of Krevin's tongue-work did more than half a dozen inquiries.

In the Mayor's Parlour 1899

I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already. "

The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already. "

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already. "

The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842