Tongues Collection

Pentecost (Overbeck)
The Holy Spirit descends on the apostles, and their associates ( a multitude ) with the gift of tongues

PICNIC WITH OX TONGUES
Four picnickers enjoy Poulton & Noels Belgravian Rolled Ox Tongues, winners of Gold Medals at London and Antwerp Date: 1895

African Lion - lioness with mouth open (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania

Palawan Monitor Lizard - rests on a path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) to smell a visitor (Varanus marmoratus)

The Non-Drinking Host by H M Bateman. This illustration has four men sat around a card table. One man is smoking a cigarette but the other three are so distracted by their lack of beverage that their

Pentecost / Fouquet
Mary and the apostles receive the Gift of Tongues from the Holy Ghost, who hovers above them in the form of a dove

Four dogs on bicycles on a Christmas card
Four dogs on a Christmas card, riding pennyfarthing bicycles uphill. Date: circa 1890s

Two boys playing on a Balham street, SW London, both sticking out their tongues at someone. Date: circa 1961

European Bison - adult female - cleaning its nostrils (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Palawan Monitor Lizard - searches for food along a public path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) (Varanus marmoratus)

A Common Monitor Lizard swims in a small stream, looking for prey (Varanus salvator). in rainforest of Tioman Island, 30 km East off peninsula Malaysia in South China Sea; June

Common Tegu LIZARD (Tupinambis teguixin). In zoo, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Msai GIRAFFE - x three, Giraffe peers over 2nd giraffes back with tongue out (Giraffa camelopardalis). Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Komodo Dragon
KOMODO DRAGON (Varanus komodoensis)

Conscience hath a thousand tongues. Illustration shows an elderly man, John R. Walsh, being assailed from all sides by people who have been defrauded by his misappropriation of funds from their

The confusion of tongues

Boys on a Go-Kart
Four boys on a home-made go-kart made out of a box which once contained frozen lamb tongues, in Horley, Surrey. Two of the boys are the photographers own and they are all having fun

Canned & Bottled Foods
Bottled foods - onions, capers, chutney, petits pois and gherkins - and a can of Paysandu Ox Tongues, neatly arranged on a table

Pentecost (Dore)
The Holy Spirit descends on the apostles, and their associates ( a multitude ) with the gift of tongues

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