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• a  lacking a tongue
  tongueless moccasins
• s  expressed without speech
  best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson

• It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made tongueless by some cruel and nameless enemy.
• We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages.
• Thus, chapters about the sacrificial, tongueless virgin and her relationship with the blind assassin who plans to kill her are interspersed with passages of Iris' memoirs of her .

• mute
• unspoken
• wordless

• tongued