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My name's in the book, or I'll be at the studio " I was tongue-tied. My glance, shifting from hers because I was suddenly afraid of myself, encountered the gaze of Millard from behind. Now I detected the unmistakable fire of jealousy in the eyes of the author. I presume I was never built to be a heavy lover. Up and down my spine went a shiver of fear.
The man that invented writin' must 'a' been tongue-tied or had sore throat some time when he wanted to talk awful bad. My langwidge ain't broke to pull no city rig or no hearse. She's got to have the road and plenty room to sidestep. "Now, how would I say it if John were here? Would I start off with 'Dear John' or 'Dear Old Friend'? I reckon not. I'd just say: 'John, I'm goin' to quit.
You may drive through a forest so disguised, the tongue-tied torrent struggling silently in the cleft of the ravine, and all still except the jingle of the sleigh bells, and you shall fancy yourself in some untrodden northern territory Lapland, Labrador, or Alaska.
Why was he as good as tongue-tied in her presence when he had such fires to pour forth? Let him, the Philosopher, repeat at the same time that souls harmonious to Nature, of whom there are few, do not mount this animal. Those who have true passion are not at the mercy of Hippogriff otherwise Sur-excited Sentiment.
"My mother," Brederode said; and introduced us. I am not ashamed to confess that I was tongue-tied. What had he written? How much had he told? In what way had he described some of us? Nell, who usually has some original little thought to put into words, apparently had no thoughts at all; or they lay too deep for utterance.
Within her tiny frame the soul of her had risen to maternal heights, embracing and sustaining Diana. He would have given the world to question her. But after her first answer to his first inquiry he had fallen tongue-tied on the subject of Diana, and Nigeria had absorbed conversation. She, on her side, wished him to know many things, but did not see how to begin upon them.
Is it shame that makes thee tongue-tied? Shall I go on? or art thou satisfied with what has been already said?" I bowed my head. "Go on," said I. "I make not this request in the hope of undeceiving you. I shall no longer contend with my own weakness. The storm is let loose, and I shall peaceably submit to be driven by its fury. But go on.
But Jerome, with the great Squire standing waiting before him, felt suddenly tongue-tied. He was not scared, though his heart beat fast; it was only that the words would not come. The Squire watched him kindly with his bright, twinkling blue eyes under his brush of yellow hair.
They would quote fluently passages from writers that he had not heard of; if he had not heard of them, they seemed to imply, no wonder he made such foolish proposals. Poor Columbus stands there puzzled, dissatisfied, tongue-tied. He cannot answer these wiseacres in their own learned lingo; what they say, or what they quote, may be true or it may not; but it has nothing to do with his Idea.
To tell a woman he loves her has been the simplest thing in the world hitherto, but now, when at last he is in earnest when poverty has driven him to seek marriage with an heiress as a cure for all his ills he finds himself tongue-tied; and not only by the importance of the situation, so far as money goes, but by the clear, calm, waiting eyes of Perpetua.
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