She said some words in an ancient tongue, and I didn't understand them.

Holding out her arms she spoke in the ancient tongue.

But learn from that ancient tongue to be middle old modern to the minute.

Here the island spoke to her in a thousand ancient tongues.

We hold it a more ancient tongue than the others, but up until now I've never been sure that was true.

She knew several of the ancient tongues, and so did other people.

He murmured something in the ancient Egyptian tongue, she didn't know what it was.

Many of the books, I suspect, may be written in ancient tongues that now are little known.

Being rude in an ancient tongue was one of his foibles.

It is an ancient tongue, that sweet child of the old Syriac.