Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Urgent and pressing talk; a flood of words.
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Examples
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These articles rejoiced the soul of Gaudissart, who used them as ammunition to destroy prejudices, bringing to bear upon the provinces what his successors have since named, in honor of him, "the charge of the tongue-battery."
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Just as the tongue-battery of the illustrious Gaudissart, that Murat of travellers, when brought to bear upon the provinces and the frontiers, made the house of A. Popinot and Company a triumphant mercantile success in the country regions, so likewise did Cephalic
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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