Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough.
So in short, I've always felt that there was basically something very weird about our concept of civilization, something that leaves us lost for words, tongue tied.
A sudden restlessness possessed him, and he was tongue-tied by the sense that their minutes were numbered, and that at any moment he might hear the wheels of the returning carriage.
Her grandmother moved to her side. " Help the poor boy" ! the Queen of Thorns screeched, in a voice ten times her size. " Dolts! Will you all stand about gaping? Help your king" !
A noise like that of a wet finger on the window-pane interrupted Mr. Huddlestone's tale; and in an instant we were all four as white as paper, and sat tongue-tied and motionless round the table.
Even if I didn't have anything else to talk about, I at least wanted her to know that I missed her… I just wasn't sure I'd be able to get the words out without getting tongue-tied.