Why should his mocking tongue so perversely deny the better feelings of his better moods?

Hold your mocking tongue, fiendish woman!

I pause here, holding converse no longer with such mocking tongue, nor linger in presence of this blasphemous crew.

Under the lash of that mocking tongue Lionel's mood was stung to anger where before it had held naught but fear.

"Without that lying, mocking tongue."