Famous quotes containing the words forked and/or tongues:
“A marchant was therwith a forked berd,
In mottelee, and hye on horse he sat,
Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bevere hat,
His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
His resons he spak ful solempnely,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)